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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).
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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 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The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is one of very few Philippine historical documents dating from the precolonial period and the only one bearing information on the social life of the Manila region before the arrival of the Spanish.
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,
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...
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The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is one of very few Philippine historical documents dating from the precolonial period and the only one bearing information on the social life of the Manila region before the arrival of the Spanish.
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Sep 21, 2022 · Abstract:The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is one of very few Philippine historical documents dating from the precolonial period and the only one bearing information on the social life of the Manila region before the arrival of the Spanish.
