"Buddhist Chaitya at Salihundam", the excavated apsidal brick shrine with its broken plaster Buddha (Madras Archaeological Report 1919-20, Fig. 1 (B))

Photograph of an excavated brick shrine on a hillside, its curved back wall enclosing the broken lower half of a large seated plaster figure on a low brick platform, with a lone palm tree on the skyline.

Type: Historic photograph
Creator: Archaeological Department, Southern Circle, Madras (A. H. Longhurst)
Date: 1920
Licence: Public domain
From: A. H. Longhurst, Annual Report of the Archaeological Department, Southern Circle, Madras, for the year 1919-20 (opens in a new tab), 1920, Fig. 1 (B) (plate, PDF p. 41); text p. 36
Original: archive.org (opens in a new tab)
Appears in: Religion & philosophy, Temples & architecture