Sigiriya
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Sep 27, 2024 09:46 AM
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History
An archaeological site currently interpreted as the capital city of the parricidal King Kassapa I (A.D. 477–95). The site was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50266
7.95713673693, 80.7572632405
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Sigiriya (337 BC - AD 1232) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Sigiriya located on Sri Lanka (unspecified date range)
- Hunagiri Vihara mentioned at Sigiriya (AD 700 - AD 799)
- Paraṇgama mentioned at Sigiriya (AD 700 - AD 899)
archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Sigiriya
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Sigiriya, SRI
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, Divya Kumar-Dumas, R. Talbert, jfu, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Sigiriya: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50266> [accessed: 05 November 2024]
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