Women in music and dance

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Title

A female dancer carved on the wall of a temple

Subject

Women dancers
Terra-cotta figurines--Lankatilake Image House--Polonnaruwa--Sri Lanka

Description

Belonging to the Polonnaruva period is this somewhat fragmentary terra-cotta image of a female dancer carved on the outer side of the south wall of the Lankatilake image house at Polonnaruva.

Creator

Sirima Kiribamune

Source

Lankatilake, Polonnaruva, Sri Lanka

Date

ca. 11th-12th century A.D.
Period of study: 1986-1987
Version: 01/12/2012

Contributor

Co-Author: Seneviratna, Harsha
Technical Officer: Wijesinghe, Lalith
Technical Assistant: Jayasundare, Subhashini
Photographer: Madanayake, I.S.
International Center for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, Colombo

Rights

All rights reserved by International Center for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka.

Relation

Forms part of Photographic documentation of Women as depicted in early Sri Lankan sculpture and painting / Slide in present collection

Format

JPEG 2000

Language

eng

Type

image

Identifier

PDWESLSP.S.109

Coverage

ce

Citation

Sirima Kiribamune, "A female dancer carved on the wall of a temple," online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #12606, http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/12606 (accessed April 24, 2024).

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