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Photo 92/17(8)
- Record Id:
- 041-003046633
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003045119
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x00140a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 92/17(8)
- Title:
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The Abhayagiraya Dagoba... [sic, for Jetawanarama Dagaba, Anuradhapura]. Photographer: Lawton, Joseph
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
General view of the Jetawanarama Dagaba (here confused with the Abhayagiri: see note at print 7), the print heavily marked up in white for cropping. The caption note continues: '...is the largest at Anaradhapura, 460 feet high, and about half a mile round, built of bricks but now overgrown with brushwood and small jungle. It is supposed to contain great treasures, but fear of evil spirits prevents natives from disturbing the tomb. Europeans of course would not do so.' Geraldine Mitton has crossed this caption out with the remark, 'All bunkum', and supplied an alternative note: 'This shows Abhayagiri one of the largest dagabas existing, as it was before pains had been taken to crop the growth and rebuild the steeple or tee. This place is the headquarters of one of the few communities of Buddhist monks who do not belong to the Siamese or Burmese order of Buddhism in Ceylon. The present height of the drum is 230 ft and the diameter 325 feet.'
[Albumen print, 283x217mm].
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
041-003046633 - 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(8) : The Abhayagiraya Dagoba... [sic, for Jetawanarama Dagaba, Anuradhapura]. Photographer: Lawton, Joseph - Hierarchy:
- 032-003045119[0016]/040-003046625[0008]/041-003046633
- 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:
- Jetawanarama Dagaba (Anuradhapura)