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- Convenor:
-
Christian Bauer
(Humboldt University, Berlin)
- Location:
- Salle 211 G MAE
- Start time:
- 8 July, 2015 at
Time zone: Europe/Paris
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
Participants of the panel on Southeast Asian epigraphy will report on current field, museum, and archival research on inscriptions as well as their documentation.
Long Abstract:
This panel is a follow-up of the one held at EurASEAA 14 in Dublin (2012).
Participants of the panel on Southeast Asian epigraphy will report on current field, museum, and archival research on inscriptions as well as their documentation.
Although the main focus is set to be on new discoveries (such as the recent find of a multilingual slab from Kyaukse, Burma, among others), previously published material will be critically re-assessed as well.
Discussion of epigraphs are going to be put into archaeological and art historical contexts (such as inscribed Buddha images, glazed tiles, and the like).
Confirmed participants (as of November 2014) include Tilman Frasch (Manchester) who will report on the current state of epigraphy at Pagán, Marek Buchmann (Berlin) on inscriptions from Northern Thailand in Dhamma [Tham] script, and Christian Bauer (Berlin) on Mon inscriptions.
The panel is open to further participants who are hereby invited to submit contributions.
Accepted papers:
Session 1Tilman Frasch
Paper short abstract:
The paper gives an overview of current research on early Myanmar epigraphy and the compilation of the "Bagan Epigraphic Digest" (BED).
Paper long abstract:
In 1921, Charles Duroiselle then Director of the Archaeological Survey of Burma, compiled a "List of Inscriptions Found in Burma", which summarised the epigraphic research conducted in colonial Burma since 1885. Since the publication of the List, hundreds of new inscriptions have come to light, and although editorial work on them has continued, no further stock-taking exercise has taken place. My current research aims to fill this gap and compile an updated, annotated list of inscriptions from early Myanmar. The "Bagan Epigraphic Digest" is designed as an open-access database providing information incl. references to available editions on all inscriptions from the Bagan period known so far, A new numbering system, which can be rolled out for other periods of Myanmar history as well, will identify every single inscription unequivocally. The presentation will give an overview of this digest and its current state of progress.
Marek Buchmann (Humboldt-University of Berlin)
Paper short abstract:
The presentation is an up-to-date comprehensive field and museum survey of northern Thai inscriptions in "Dhamma" (Tham) script from the 16th to the 18th centuries CE.
Paper long abstract:
The inscriptions that are subject of this conference presentation date all from the time when northern Thailand lost its independence to Burma in the 16th century CE up to the beginning of the post-Burmese period, the 18th century.
The data upon which this presentation is based have been collected in the field in northern Thailand over the past two years and represent the first comprehensive survey since the late Hans Penth's.
The texts in this corpus are all written in "Dhamma" (Tham) script and in Thai, Pali or a mix of both languages. The "Fak Kham" script that was also used at that time and earlier in northern Thailand will not be discussed here, as it has been dealt with in a three-volume monograph (Buchmann 2011-2015).
An introduction to script and language will be followed by an overview of objects and materials used on which these inscriptions were written on. These include not only slabs and stelae but also a large variety of Buddha images.
A detailed and comprehensive up-to-date overview, with the aid of statistical data, about the status of my current research and an outlook for forthcoming studies will be the main part of this presentation, followed by a report in the current state of research in Thailand.
Christian Bauer (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Paper short abstract:
Since the last EurASEAA 14 conference in 2012 new Mon inscribed artefacts (images, stupas, glazed tiles, slabs) have been discovered in Burma, Thailand and Western collections. These epigraphs throw new light on the art, religious, and linguistic history of the first millenium CE up to the 15th c.
Paper long abstract:
Since the EurASEAA 14 conference in 2012 in Dublin new Mon inscribed artefacts have been discovered in the field in Burma and Thailand as well as in Western museum and private collections.
These epigraphs throw new light on the art, religious, and linguistic history of the first millenium CE up to the 15th c.
Inscriptions to be presented and discussed include:
(1) a new multilingual 11th c. inscription from Kyaukse district (Central Burma), of which the Mon face -- the longest text of this slab -- will be reviewed in detail;
(2) newly identified 12th c. votive images from Saraphi district, Northern Thailand, representing "The Greatest and Foremost Disciples" of the Etadaggavagga, Aṅguttara Nikāya;
(3) inscribed 8th/9th c. miniature stupas from Nakhorn Sawan, Northwest Thailand, their connections to votive images from Mahasarakham and their relation to Gandharan Buddhist reliquaries;
(4) 15th c. glazed tiles of the "Mara's daughters" series from the Shwegugyi-Ajapala site in Pegu, Burma; a now comprehensive list of 43 images held in seven collections worldwide has been compiled and a text typology established.
Daoruang Wittayarat (Chulalongkorn University)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper, epigraphic corpus from Isan (Northeastern Thailand) of 6th- 12th century will be classified upon linguistic, palaeographic and historical criteria.
Paper long abstract:
Although the most part of Isan (Northesatern Thailand) has been considered as an annex of ancient Khmer Empire, the epigraphic corpus from this region under the period studied testifies diversity of languages and paleographic features. In this paper, I will classify this corpus upon linguistic, palaeographic and historical criteria. I will also discuss the relations of Isan corpus with those from neighboring areas to suggest that this region which was at a crossroads.of different civilizations had elaborated a nagari-like script which is characteristic of Mon /Sanskrit inscriptions from this region in about 9th- -10th century