File:Mathura Lion Capital Detail.jpg
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| Mathura lion capital
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| Title |
Mathura lion capital label QS:Lit,"Capitello leonino di Mathura" label QS:Lja,"マトゥラーの獅子柱頭" label QS:Lsi,"මථුරා සිංහ කුළුණු ශීර්ෂය" label QS:Lhi,"मथुरा का सिंह स्तम्भशीर्ष" label QS:Lko,"마투라 사자 기둥머리" label QS:Len,"Mathura lion capital" label QS:Lbn,"মথুরা সিং স্তম্ভশীর্ষ" label QS:Lzh,"馬圖拉獅子的柱頭" label QS:Lta,"மதுரா சிங்கத் தூண்" |
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| Object type |
capital |
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| Description |
English: Pillar capital with addorsed lions and Prakrit inscriptions in the Kharoshthi script
place of creation: Mathura region, Uttar Pradesh |
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| Date |
0000s AD date QS:P,+0000-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 Indo-Scythians (200 BC date QS:P,-0200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 –400) |
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| Medium | red sandstone | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
height: 50.8 cm (20 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+50.8U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+74U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,+28.5U174728 |
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| Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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| Current location |
room 33 (China, South & South-east Asia, India) |
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| Accession number |
OA 1889.3-14.1 |
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| Credit line | bequest of Bhagwanlal Indraji, PhD | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions |
Prakrit inscriptions in the Kharoshthi script |
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| References | British Museum: online database: entry 225661 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source | Own work | ||||||||
| Author | PHGCOM | ||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
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| current | 02:46, 25 September 2005 | 583 × 773 (210 KB) | wikimediacommons>World Imaging | Detail of the Mathura Lion Capital. Brithish Museum. Personal photograph, 2005. |
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