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Title: Goldfish Park: Bathing pool: Stone bed: Bas-relief: Elephants in bas-relief
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2001
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: Northern bathing pool with chamber at center and a stone bed with a backrest. Frolicking elephants in water are carved in bas-reliefs on the rocks flanking the chamber. Lotus flowers in bas-relief fill the background.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00654.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/766
Subject: Bathhouses
Bas-relief
Time Period: Begun in the 3rd century BCE
Place: Ranmasu Uyana or Magul Uyana (Goldfish Park or Royal Park)
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15