Mantai : city by the sea / edited by John Carswell, Siran Deraniyagala, Alan Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carswell, J. P. (John Patrick), author, ediitor.

Deraniyagala, S. U., author, editor.

Graham, Alan H., author, editor.

Contributor:

Sri Lanka. Purāvidyā Depārtamēntuva.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Mantai (Sri Lanka)--History.

Mantai (Sri Lanka).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Sri Lanka--20th century.

Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka--Mantai.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

552 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm + 1 CD-ROM (color ; 4 3/4 in)

4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Production:

Archaeological Department of Sri Lanka.

Place of Publication:

Aichwald, Germany : Linden Soft Verlag, 2013.

System Details:

text file PDF

image file

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "Appendices; Chinese pottery; Complete photo record; Peter Francis bead catalogue."--disc label.

"This is a publication of the long awaited results of the excavations at Mantai in Sri Lanka between 1980 and 1984. It is a vital document for the history and exploration of Mantai since the early 19th century and is a tool for any future excavators. Even more important is Mantai's location at the crossroads of of cultural relations between China and the Western world and also between India and Sri Lanka, resulting in the survival of material evidence for over 1500 years until it's demise in the early 11th century A.D."

Notes:

"Published with the support of Ceramica -Stiftung Basel."

"Director -General Archaeological Department of Sri Lanka."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783929290394

3929290391

OCLC:

858274177