DescriptionPortuguese inscription in Colombo, 1501.jpg
English: Lithograph of a Portuguese inscription (dated 1501) found on a boulder uncovered in 1898 during excavations underneath the old Breakwater Office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and published 1899 in "Antiquarian Discovery Relating to the Portuguese in Ceylon", Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 16, p.15-29.
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Lithograph from photograph by unnamed Assistant Engineer, Colombo, Ceylon
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