- Support
- Doorjamb (?); h. 144 × w. 34 × d. 9 cm.
- Text
- Unknown language, Southern Brāhmī script. Five lines, virtually illegible; h. 19 × w. 12 cm .
- Date
- Attributable to the Ikṣvāku period on palaeographic grounds.
- Origin
- Ghantasala.
- Provenance
- Nothing is known about date and location of discovery of this piece. Identified at Ghantasala Museum (without an acc. no.) in February 2016.
- Editors
- Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
- Publication history
- Previously unpublished. Edited here from our photographs after autopsy of the stone.
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