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View of right side of Council Chamber of King Parākramabāhu the Great: Pillars

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Title: View of right side of Council Chamber of King Parākramabāhu the Great: Pillars
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2005
Publication Information: Claremont Colleges Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Ancient Cultural Sites and Royal Residences
Rights Information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description: The view of the right side of the highly decorative exterior of the Council Chamber. The three panels with friezes depict bas-reliefs, and are from top to bottom, figures of ganas, lions, and elephants, in different poses or modes of movement and with each of them separated by ornamented pilasters. Wide ledges separate the friezes. Some of the pillars inside the Council Chamber are visible at the top.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01176.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1311
Subject: Friezes
Bas-relief
Pillars
Structures
Time Period: 12th century CE
Place: King Parākramabāhu the Great's Council Chamber
Polonnaruva
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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