The Allahabad Pillar is a single shaft of polished   sandstone standing 35 feet (10.7 m) high.
It has a lower diameter of 35 inches (0.9 m) and an upper diameter of 26 inches (0.7 m).
The customary lotiform bell-shaped capital seen in the other Ashoka Pillars is lost as is whichever statue mounted it.
However the abacus, adorned by a "graceful scroll of alternate lotus and honeysuckle" that the statue must have rested upon, was found nearby.
Cunningham believed that the capital must have been mounted by a single lion.
The abacus is almost identical to the one found on the pillar at Sankasya suggesting proximate erection dates.
The Allahabad Pillar is a single shaft of polished   sandstone standing 35 feet (10.7 m) high. It has a lower diameter of 35 inches (0.9 m) and an upper diameter of 26 inches (0.7 m). The customary lotiform bell-shaped capital seen in the other Ashoka Pillars is lost as is whichever statue mounted it. However the abacus, adorned by a "graceful scroll of alternate lotus and honeysuckle" that the statue must have rested upon, was found nearby. Cunningham believed that the capital must have been mounted by a single lion. The abacus is almost identical to the one found on the pillar at Sankasya suggesting proximate erection dates.
Allahabad pillar