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Nov 20, 2015 · The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is the name of an inscription written on an artifact that has great significance for the understanding of the history of the Philippines during the 10th century AD – a time when many scholars believed that the area was isolated from the rest of Southeast Asia.
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (Filipino: Inskripsyón sa binatbát na tansô ng Laguna) is an official acquittance (debt relief) certificate inscribed onto a copper plate in the Shaka year 822 (Gregorian A.D. 900).
The Laguna Copperplate is a thin piece of blackened metal that was purchased by the National Museum of the Philippines in 1990 after the former owner failed to find a private buyer. Following a careful examination of the plate, it was found to be a 20 cm square copperplate covered on one side by a ten-line inscription of finely written characters.
The Laguna Copperplate inscription (LCI) is the earliest known written document found in the Philippines. The plate was found in 1989 by Alfredo Evangelista in Lumban river near Laguna de Bay. Evangelista was dredging sand in the mouth of the river when he uncovered this sheet of copper with strange writing on it.
Jul 14, 2006 · In 1994 Hector Santos asked me to write a Filipino translation of the Laguna Copperplate Inscription. I wrote two. The first was based on his English translation. The second was based on his glossary, called the LCI Dictionary, and on my own research. It closely followed the word order of the original document.
had been discovered along the Lake of Laguna east of Manila, I decided to call it the Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription or LCI for short. The script appeared to me rather similar to the standard form of the Early Kawi Script used around the tenth century A.D. (Stutter-heim 1940, 3-28) like the OJ Randoesari inscription of Central Java,
I decided to call it the Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription or LC1 for short. The script appeared to me rather similar to the standard form of the Early Kawi Script used around the tenth century A.D. (Stutter- heim 1940, 3-28) like the OJ Randoesari inscription of Central Java, dated 905 A.D. (Stutterheim 1940, 3-28).
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is one of very few Philippine historical documents dating from the precolonial period and the only one bearing information on the social life of the Manila region before the arrival of the Spanish.
Feb 24, 2022 · The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (LCI) is an ancient legal document with an inscription written in a mix of Old Malay language using Old Kawi Script, an ancient Javanese writing system.
Nov 20, 2015 · The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is the name of an inscription written on an artifact that has great significance for the understanding of the history of the Philippines during the 10th century AD...
