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Elephanta Caves

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Oct 05, 2018 07:04 AM — History

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An island in the Sea of Oman is home to the "City of Caves", where an important assemblage of rock-cut art dating to the fifth through eighth centuries and linked to the cult of Shiva may be found.

500 km

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/312948560

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
18.9627548, 72.9317263

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Elephanta Caves (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Place type:
sanctuary (religious center), cave

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Elephanta Caves: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/312948560> [accessed: 18 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/312948560 |title=Places: 312948560 (Elephanta Caves) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 18, 2025 2:28 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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