The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey, Vol. 1Vijayanagara, the “City of Victory,” was the capital of South India’s largest and most successful pre-colonial empire from c. AD 1330-1565. This richly illustrated volume reports on the results of a ten-year systematic regional archaeological survey in the hinterland or “metropolitan region” of this vast and well-preserved urban site. |
Contents
VIJAYANAGARA IN REGIONAL CONTEXT | 3 |
Plates | 10 |
SURVEY METHODOLOGY | 15 |
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The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey, Vol. 1 Carla M. Sinopoli,Kathleen D. Morrison Limited preview - 2007 |
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14 Primary 50 g ceramics abuts agricultural fields antechamber artifact scatter artifacts recovered associated basalt black plain ware Block bowls brown plain ware canal carved ceramic scatter city wall cobbles columns consists constructed courses density Description Dimensions dry farmed fields east east-west edge face Feature Figure flakes fragments Ganesha gate granite Hanuman Illustrations inset jars Kamalapuram lingam Lithics located mandapa masonry metropolitan region modern moldings Morrison and Sinopoli mortar mound Nandi north-south northeast northwest oriented outcrop hill outcropping boulders Penukonda plaster Plate platform Present Land Use/Disturbances quartz quartzite recent rectangular red plain ware References reservoir embankment residential road sanctuary sculpted sculpture Setting settlement Shaivite sheet rock sherds shrine side Sinopoli and Morrison Site Description Site Dimensions slabs slag sluice southeast square stepped structure surface survey temple complex Temporal Affiliation Transect 1 Unit Unknown unmodified stones urban core vessels Vijayanagara period visible