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This Black Disk looks to me to be like polished slate. In the 1999 catalog by Osmund Bopearachchi and Rajah Wickramasinhe titled Ruhuna. An Ancient Civilization Re-visited , they are listed under Miscellaneous Objects as Black rouletted Ware (N.1-N.6). It was obtained from the same collector who provided most of the items for that book.
I am uncertain of this item. Particularly the svastika looks as it has been drawn AFTER the block polished surface has worn. The elephant crude. Is it a recent engraving on a blank otherwise uninteresting NBPW disk ?
The item was scanned at 600 dpi and displayed at 250 dpi. It was obtained in 2003 May from Mr A. Ratnayaka a collector in Katharagama, Lanka.