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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
Collection
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).