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).
Last modified
Jun 19, 2020 10:51 AM
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History
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
7.955574, 80.757526
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 13549 (AD 300 - AD 640)
- None
- Sigiriya connection Taprobane/Palaisimoundou/Salike (island) (unspecified date range)
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None
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Sigiriya
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Sigiriya, SRI
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, jfu, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Sigiriya: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50266> [accessed: 02 June 2023]
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