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Photo 1002/3(142)

Record Id:
041-003133776
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003133616
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100026192681.0x000428
LARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/3(142)
Title:

Ruins of a brick temple, with statue of Karttikeya, Dulmi, Manbhum District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik

Scope & Content:

Genre: Architectural Photography

Bengal list pp. 554-555; see also J. D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour through the Bengal Provinces...in 1872-73' (A.S.I. vol. VIII, Calcutta, 1878), p. 187: '...the only standing structure being a small temple of brick on a small isolated hill south of the village and close to the river banks; it is built of brick set in mud, smoothed and ornamented with plain lines of mouldings, the bricks for the purpose being cut to shape; the roof is a semicircular arch internally, of bricks, cut to shape and set edge to edge; the bricks are 14"x10"; the entrance is of the usual pattern of bricks in overlapping courses; the temple appears to have been Saivic, but there were probably other temples on the hill; one of the fragments of sculpture represents a female seated on a peacock'. This sculptured slab is placed beside the entrance of the temple in this photograph, with an Indian figure included for scale.

Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); temples

Location = Bihar; Dulmi; India

Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003133616
040-003133738
041-003133776
Is part of:
Photo 1002 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Indian Museum Series. Photographer(s): Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar, Shepherd and…
Photo 1002/3 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Indian Museum Series (volume 3, nos. 105-160: Bengal). Photographer(s): Beglar,…

 

Photo 1002/3(142) : Ruins of a brick temple, with statue of Karttikeya, Dulmi, Manbhum District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Hierarchy:
032-003133616[0003]/040-003133738[0038]/041-003133776
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Item
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
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Scripts:
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Techniques:
Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print
Start Date:
1872
End Date:
1873
Date Range:
1872-1873
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 240 mm x 188 mm

Format: Bound in Volume

Secondary Support: Card

Material Type:
Photographs
Legal Status:
Public Record(s)
Names:
Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik, photographer, 1845-1907
Subjects:
Archaeological Survey Of India Collections
Archaeological Survey of India: Indian Museum Series
Architectural Types
Architecture
Hindu Temples
Religious Buildings
Temples