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Photo 1003(2252)

Record Id:

040-003138632

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003136414

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026192714.0x0008a9

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Format:

ISAD(G)

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Photo 1003(2252)

Title:

Partially excavated Buddhist stupa at Arugolu, Godavari District. Photographer: Rea, Alexander

Scope & Content:

Genre: Architectural Photography

See Annual Report of the Superintendent, Archaeological Survey, Madras, dated 27 June 1893 (Madras General Proceedings, June 1893): 'During the second portion of the field season excavations were made at the Buddhist site of Arugolu in the Godavari District...The place covers several square miles and markes the site of what has evidently been a large town and important religious centre. The existing remains consist of the ruins of a large vihara with two small stupas near, a large stupa (Chinna Lanja dibba) with a vihara and numbers of small votive stupas around, and a large mound (Pedda Lanja dibba) containing the remains of a rectangular building on which a Local Fund bungalow has recently been built. Surrounding it is a considerable number of small votive stupas...At the former I unearthed some large vases and pots in earthenware, a number of bones of a large ruminant and other articles from the cells and centre of the stupas; at the second, two relic caskets, one of them being a large rough laterite boulder with a conical cavity covered with a round polished slab of gneiss and containing a crystal phial with some bones and ashes. Among other objects excavated around the building were a number of cut stone architectural details including the rail and facing stones of the dome and a sculptured marble slab. Photographs and drawingsof the principal of these objects were taken...' See also following plates. Duplicate at Photo 1008/1 (208).

Subjects = archaeological excavations; archaeological sites; Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Buddhist); stupas

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003136414
040-003138632

Is part of:

Photo 1003 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Indian Museum Series (Duplicates)

Photo 1003(2252) : Partially excavated Buddhist stupa at Arugolu, Godavari District. Photographer: Rea, Alexander

Hierarchy:

032-003136414[2216]/040-003138632

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

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Languages:

Not applicable

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Not applicable

Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1893

End Date:

1893

Date Range:

1893

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