The Indian Museum, Kolkata's own institutional record is the museum's standing custodial account of an object it holds, including the museum's share of the 1898 Piprahwa relic find. As a holding institution's own record rather than a scholarly publication, it is authoritative for provenance and custodial facts, which object the museum holds and how it came to hold it, but it is not the source for the object's own deeper history or religious meaning, which needs independent archaeological or historical scholarship alongside this custodial record.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Custodial/institutional self-account (a museum's own record of its holdings). Museums and other institutional self-accounts sit at tier 2, not tier 1 or tier 3; tier 3 is reserved for a tradition's own account of its own teachings and practice. NotesIndian Museum, Kolkata's own custodial record for the object it holds. A standing institutional or private-holder record, not a scholarly publication; use for provenance and holding-institution facts, not for the object's own history or meaning.
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyIndian Museum, Kolkata
Custodian BasisThe museum's own account of its founding, governance and its share of the 1898 Piprahwa find.
Citation
PublisherIndian Museum, Kolkata
URLhttps://indianmuseumkolkata.org/
Source TypeMuseum
Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)
This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 9 claims: 9 well-attested.
- Custodians & Museums, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Artifacts & Relics, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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