Kuthodaw Pagoda
Aerial images
General site images
- Model of site
- Main entrance
- Buddha shrine hall 1
- Buddha shrine
- Main stupa 1. Photo by Daniel Julie
- Main stupa 2
- Main stupa 3
- Main stupa and shrine hall
- Mini-pagodas housing stelae 1
- Mini-pagodas housing stelae 2
- Mini-pagodas housing stelae 3
- Mini-pagodas housing stelae 4
- Main bell
- Starflower trees
- Supports for old starflower tree
- Newly planted Starflower tree
- Starflower tree sign
- Cleaning Buddha images
- Local resident
- UNESCO Memory of the World plaque
Use of site
- Monk giving a sermon under a sunflower tree 1
- Monk giving a sermon under a sunflower tree 2
- Group visit to the site 1
- Group visit to the site 2
- Group visit to the site 3
- Asalha Puja
- Asalha Puja
- Asalha Puja
- Asalha Puja
- Asalha Puja
- Asalha Puja
- Asalha Puja
- Asalha Puja
- Flowers for offering
- Flowers for offering
- Flowers for offering
- Sorting the donations
Maps
Pre-conservation
- Whitewash 1
- Whitewash 2
- Whitewash 3
- Whitewash 4
- Graffiti 1
- Graffiti 2
- Graffiti 3
- Graffiti 4
- Graffiti 5
- Sticker 1
- Sticker 2
- Dust 1
- Dust 2
- Misc
- Burnt synthetic blanket
- Cement 1
- Cement 2
- Damage from bat urine prior to cleaning 1
- Damage from bat urine prior to cleaning 2
- Wasp nest 1
- Wasp nest 2
- Flaking marble 1
- Flaking marble 2
- Original preservation coating 1
- Original preservation coating 2
- Rubbish 1
- Rubbish 2
- Rubbish 3
- Broken grate door
- Vegetation growing on mini-pagoda 1
- Vegetation growing on mini-pagoda 2
- Vegetation overhanging pagoda and mold 1
- Vegetation overhanging pagoda and mold 2
- Vegetation overhanging pagoda and mold 3
- Vegetation overgrowth prior to maintenance 1
- Vegetation overgrowth prior to maintenance 2
Conservation
- Wendy Reade removing whitewash
- Wendy Reade showing Dept. of Archaeology staff cleaning method
- Stela after removal of whitewash
- Dept. of Archaeology staff cleaning a stela
- Dept. of Archaeology staff cleaning a stela
- Wendy Reade cleaning stela
- Dept. of Archaeology staff removing cement splashes
- Allon and the site manager U Wai Lwin inspecting a cleaned stela 2016
- Testing preservative coating 2015 1
- Testing preservative coating 2015 2
- Tree cut back from pagodas
- Clearing weeds
- Clearing weeds
- Rubbish and weeds removed
- Repaired grate door, new lock and repainted number
- Repaired grate door with a new padlock
- Sorting out keys for new locks
Photographing & imaging
- Photographing of stelae by U Kyaw Win 2015
- Dampening stela before photographing
- Testing the Artec Spider 3D scanner 1
- Testing the Artec Spider 3D scanner 2
Characteristics of stelae and inscriptions
Diversity of stelae shapes
- A stela with Dept. of Archaeology staff
- Stela 013-A-01
- Stela 015-A-01
- Stela 017-A-01
- Stela 029-B-01
- Stela 036-A-01
- Stela 046-A-01
- Stela 352-A-01
- Stela 356-A-01
- Stela 363-A-01
- Stela 380-A-01
- Stela 545-A-01
- Stela 561-B-01
- Stela 562-A-01
- Writing detail 1
- Writing detail 2
- Writing detail 3
Imperfections in marble
Corrections and additions
- Addition to header 1 - stela 81
- Addition to header 2
- Addition to header 3
- Addition to header 4
- Correction - stela 54 (1)
- Correction - stela 54 (2)
- Correction - stela 55 (1)
- Correction - stela 55 (2)
- Correction - stela 62 (1)
- Correction - stela 62 (2)
- Correction - stela 62 (3)
- Correction - stela 81 (1)
- Correction - stela 81 (2)
- Correction - stela 710
- Correction misc 1a
- Correction misc 1b detail
- Correction misc 2a
- Correction misc 2b detail
- Correction misc 3
- Correction misc 4
- Correction misc 5
- Decoration - stela 115 (1)
- Decoration - stela 115 (2)
- Decoration - stela 115 (3)
- Marking of lines in margin - stela 65
- Marking of lines in margin
- Poor reinking - stela 70 (1)
- Poor reinking - stela 70 (2)
- Poor reinking - stela 70 (3)
- Repaired stela - stela 66
Donor inscriptions
- Exterior 1
- Exterior 2
- Exterior 3
- Exterior 4
- Exterior 5
- Interior 1
- Interior 2
- Interior 3
- Railing
- Starflower tree support 1
- Starflower tree support 2
- Wall mosaic
King Mindon
- King Mindon (reigned 1853-1878)
- King Mindon (reigned 1853-1878)
Historical images
Arthur Phayre
- Arthur Phayre 1855 (British Library; Wikicommons)
- Meeting of Arthur Phayre with the envoy of King Mindon in Calcutta 1854 (V&A Museum 2006AF4320)
- Ambassador of the King of Burma seated with Major Phayre painted ca. 1854 (V&A Museum 2006AF5044)
- Ambassador of the King of Burma holding the hand of Major Phayre (V&A Museum 2006AM2139)
Early photos of the Kuthodaw Pagoda
- Image: British Library 15633 (1880s)
- Image: British Library 18011 (1900)
- Image: British Library 18012 (1900)
- Image: British Library 31234 (1886)
- Image: British Library 31247 (1886)
- Image: British Library 31248 (1886)
- Image: British Library 88129 (1890s)
- Image: British Library 1004154 (1903)
- Image: British Library 1004155 (1903)
- Image: British Library 1004156 (1903)
- Image: British Library 10032563 (1880s)
- Kuthodaw prior to 1907
- Monks comparing reading on stelae (Sangāyanā Monthly Bulletin 1.1, 1953, 11)
Pre-Kuthodaw inscribed stelae
- Royal inscription collection, Mandalay 1
- Royal inscription collection, Mandalay 2
- Royal inscription collection, Mandalay 3
Pre-Kuthodaw Pagoda Project imaging
- Photos taken by Prof. Willem Bollée of the Sutta- and Abhidhamma-piṭakas in 1965 1
- Photos taken by Prof. Willem Bollée of the Sutta- and Abhidhamma-piṭakas in 1965 1
- DVD of the Kuthodaw inscriptions produced by Alpha Computers in 2006
Sagyin quarries and village
- Sagyin marble mountain 1
- Sagyin marble mountain 2
- Sagyin marble mountain 3
- Sagyin marble mountain 4
- Sagyin village 1
- Sagyin village 2
- Sagyin village 3
- Sagyin village 4
- Sagyin village 5
- Sagyin village 6
- Sagyin village 7
- Sagyin village 8
- Sagyin village 9
- Sagyin village 10
- Sagyin village 11
- Sagyin village 12
- Sagyin village 13
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Team members
- Project members 2013
- Meeting with the Director General of Archaeology 2014
- Project members 2014
- Project members 2014
- Daw Sanda Khin, Deputy Minister of Culture, inspecting KPP work on 2014 with DG of Archaeology & Wendy Reade 2014
- Project members 2014
- Project meeting 2015
- Photographer U Kyaw Win 2015
- Project members 2015
- Project members 2015
- Project members 2015
- Project members 2015
- Project members 2015
- Sitagu International Buddhist Academie transcription team 2017
- Sitagu International Buddhist Academie transcription team 2017
- Sitagu International Buddhist Academie transcription team 2017