Stone sculpture worth Tk 5cr handed over
The chief judicial magistrate of Khulna handed over a stone sculpture of Shiva Linga, recovered in 2008, to Khulna regional office of the Archaeological department yesterday.
The sculpture weighing around 42 kilograms is made of black basalt (precious dark igneous rock) and worth about Tk 5 crore.
Since its discovery by a day labourer of Rupsha upazila, Khulna in the river Bhairab on April 17, 2008, the sculpture had been under the custody of the magistrate's court.
Shihabuddin Mohammad Akbar, director of the Archaeological department's Khulna office, said the precious stone figure was made during the Sen dynasty in the ninth century.
Akbar received the sculpture from Khulna Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Asaduzzaman.
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