[INDOLOGY] Ashokan Pillars' transport

[Artur Karp]

Thank you, Julia.

But - a pity. The link does not lead to the paper, one gets a view of some
selected fragments, nothing more. Pity - again.

But, anyway -

 getting the pillar out of the quarry, then - transporting it to the river,
then - moving it onto a ship, then - getting it out of the ship, then -
transporting it to the place of the final destination, then - setting it
there --- a phantastically complicated technical/organizational enterprise.

Says much more about the Aśokan era than - I'd risk saying that - some
enigmatic texts engraved on the pillar.

Best wishes,

Artur
Polska

2017-05-19 19:43 GMT+02:00 Shaw, Julia via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> Dear Artur
>
>  Vidula Jayaswal (of BHU) has written on this.
>
> https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/From_Stone_Quarry_
> to_Sculpturing_Worksho.html?id=wwpuAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
>
> <https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/From_Stone_Quarry_to_Sculpturing_Worksho.html?id=wwpuAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y>
> From Stone Quarry to Sculpturing Workshop
> <https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/From_Stone_Quarry_to_Sculpturing_Worksho.html?id=wwpuAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y>
> books.google.co.uk
> The recognitior of ancient stone quarries at chunar hills with dateble
> epigraphs was a startling discovery made by the author of this book, in the
> year 1990. the followup archaological field investigations around chunar
> and Varanasi, which were carried out between the years 1990 and 1994, have
> uncovered the entire process of stone carving which was prevalent during
> the historical period in the Ganga plains. Besides archaeological
> investigations, ethnological surveys were also carried out. As a result of
> which it has been possible, start from quarrying of stone carving process,
> start from quarrying of stone blocks, their transportation to the centres
> of utility-carving of the sculpturing centres and the main religious
> centres etc.
>
>
> Best wishes, Julia
>
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> Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 07:32:00 +0200
> From: Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl>
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> Dear List,
>
> Has anyone studied - and written on - the mode of transport of A?okan
> pillars out of the quarry in Chunar, dst. Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh?
>
> The Firoz Shah Kotla Pillar (brought by Firoz from Ambala dst., Haryana) is
> a sandstone monolith nearly 13 m. in height, and it weighs close to 27
> tons.
>
> Regards,
>
> Artur Karp (ret.)
> Chair of South Asian Studies,
> University of Warsaw
> Polska
>
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