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Photo 92/17(7)
- Record Id:
- 041-003046632
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003045119
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x001409
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 92/17(7)
- Title:
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The Jetha-wana-ramaya temple in the same state as No. 58, built 500 AD, Anuradhapura [sic, for Abhayagiri Dagaba.] Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
General view of the Abhayagiri Dagaba, much overgrown with vegetation. Ruined shrine with guardstones in foreground. Until the early years of the twentieth century, the Abhayagiri and Jetawanarama Dagabas were confused with one another (as Geraldine Mitton notes below). The same confusion appears in print 8. The print has been heavily marked up for cropping. A note on the album page in Geraldine Mitton's hand reads: 'This dagaba, Jetwanaramana, is supposed at some unknown date to have been transposed in name with Abhayagiri. It is now 249 feet in height to top of steeple and if the surmise is correct was once the greatest of all, reaching 405 feet. It is 360 feet in diameter and was built 88 BC. A peculiar feature is found in the stone vases of bowl shape decorated with lotus flowers at the entrance.'
[Albumen print, signed 'Lawton' in the negative, 282x218mm].
Subjects = archaeological sites; dagabas (stupas); Scott (Sir George) Collection; Sri Lankan architecture; Sri Lankan architecture (Buddhist); stupas
Location = Anuradhapura; Ceylon; North Central Province; Sri Lanka
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003045119
040-003046625
041-003046632 - Is part of:
- Photo 92 : Sir James George Scott Collection: Photographs of Burma (particularly the Shan States). Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Photo 92/17 : Scott Collection: Photographs of the Ruined Cities of Ceylon. Photographer(s): Lawton, Joseph
Photo 92/17(7) : The Jetha-wana-ramaya temple in the same state as No. 58, built 500 AD, Anuradhapura [sic, for Abhayagiri Dagaba.]… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003045119[0016]/040-003046625[0007]/041-003046632
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 92
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1870
- End Date:
- 1871
- Date Range:
- 1870-1871
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Lawton, Joseph
- Subjects:
- Abhayagiri Dagaba (Anuradhapura)