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Title: Image house: Entrance with rectangular slab with moonstone
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: First of the two carved rectangular slabs. In this early form, the semi-circular moonstone is carved on the rectangular surface and only the outermost semi-circular band is carved in low relief with a row of different animals facing opposing directions and meeting at the center.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00087.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/154
Subject: Moonstones (Early to late Anurādhapura Period)
Time Period: 7th century CE. Fallen statue, found in the 1950s, restored and raised in 1991
Place: Maligawila (Maligawela), monastery complex, possibly at the location called Kanagama.
Maligawila (Maligawela). Monerāgala District, Uva province. 15 km from Butthala.
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15