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For documentary reasons, this is the original metadata as provided by UNESCO. The Description is contributed by participants in UNESCO's crowdsourcing project. Do not edit this section. BW/Colour: Black and white City: Polonnaruwa Country: Sri Lanka Date range: @@-@@-1980 Description: In a landscape, 2 monumental sculptures of Bouddha : one standing on the left, carved in the rock of a hill, and an other one, bigger, recumbent and completely detached from the hill. The head is laid on a pillow. Behind this one, there seem to be a carved hole in the rock. In front of the recumbent bouddha, we can see rests of an architectural structure of stones (walls and maybe a staircase). English transcr.: International Campaign for the Safeguarding of sites and monuments in the "Cultural Triangle". At the request of the Sri Lankan Government, UNESCO is taking part in a five-year programme to restore and protect the principal sites and monuments within a zone marked out by the ancient cultural capitals of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Kandy. Standing Buddha and recumbent Buddha on the site of Galvihara, at POLONNARUWA. French transcr.: Campagne internationale pour la sauvegarde des sites et monuments du "Triangle Culturel". à la demande du Gouvernement du Sri Lanka, l'UNESCO participe à un programme de cinq ans destiné à restaurer et à assurer la protection des principaux sites et monuments à l'intérieur d'une zone délimitée par les anciennes capitales culturelles d'Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa et Kandy. Ici, sur le site de Galvihara à POLONNARUWA : bouddha debout et bouddha couché. Keywords: Religious art | Asian art | Cultural property | International cooperation | Historic cities | Historic monuments | Ancient religions | Cultural resources Orientation: Landscape Persons: Author: UNESCO / Alexis N. Vorontzoff | ; |
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English: one standing on the left, carved in the rock of a hill, and an other one, bigger, recumbent and completely detached from the hill. The head is laid on a pillow. Behind this one, there seem to be a carved hole in the rock. In front of the recumbent bouddha, we can see rests of an architectural structure of stones (walls and maybe a staircase). |
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| Depicted place | Sri Lanka, Polonnaruwa (Q394443) | ||||||||||
| Theme | Religious art, Asian art, Cultural property, International cooperation, Historic cities, Historic monuments, Ancient religions, Cultural resources | ||||||||||
| Date | 1980 | ||||||||||
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   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO license. Attribution: UNESCO / Alexis N. Vorontzoff
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| current | 13:58, 4 September 2019 |  | 5,732 × 4,310 (71 MB) | AliciaFagervingWMSE-bot (talk | contribs) | {{Photograph | author = {{Creator:Alexis N. Vorontzoff}} | other_fields_1 = {{Information field|name=Theme|value=Culture - Triangle campaign}} | other_fields_2 = {{Information field|name=Theme|value=Religious art, Asian art, Cultural property, International cooperation, Historic cities, Historic monuments, Ancient religions, Cultural resources}} | date = 1980 | original_description = <nowiki>BW/Colour: Black and white; City: Polonnaruwa; Country: Sri Lanka; Date range: @@-@@-1980; Description... |
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