Image: Pataliputra Palace capital by L A Waddell 1895

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Description: Monumental capital with Greek artistic influence, discovered in 1895 at the royal palace in Pataliputra, India, by L.A. Waddell. Dated to the early Mauryan period. It has been described as a "Perso-Ionic capital" (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland). Excavated at Bulandi Bagh in Patna. Patna Museum. Length 49 inches (1.23 meters), height 33.5 inches (0.85 meter). Unpolished buff sandstone. A much more modern photograph
Title: Pataliputra Palace capital by L A Waddell 1895
Credit: "Report on the excavations at Pataliputra (Patna)" Calcutta, 1903, page 16 [1]
Author: L.A. WADDELL (1854-1938), author of the book and the photograph
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