Wooden Structure at Patna (Pataliputra)

[Klaus Karttunen]

On 18 Jan 99 at 17:28, Chris Beetle wrote:

> A wooden structure was unearthed in Patna (the ancient city of Pataliputra)
> back in the 1920s.  Some identified it with a wooden palisade mentioned by
> Megasthenes.  Do any of you have more information on the archaeology of this
> site and the wooden structure found there?

L.A.Waddell, Report on the Excavations at PATaliputra (Patna), the
Palibothra of the Greeks. Calcutta 1903.
J.-Ph.Vogel, "The Wooden Walls of PATaliputra", ABIA 3 (for the year
1928), 1930, 16-19.
Briefly discussed with some further references in my India and the
Hellenistic World, Helsinki 1997, p. 88.

Regards
Klaus Karttunen