Stamped clay tablet with eight seated figures grouped around a central figure. [El.B 03/11/2011]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stamped clay tablet with eight seated figures grouped around a central figure. [El.B 03/11/2011]
Long description: Stamped clay tablet with eight seated figures grouped around a central figure. On the reverse are five circular stamps with inscriptions. Broken and glued together. [El.B 03/11/2011]
Geographical reference: Thailand
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand; Trang Province Huai Yot District Huai Yot Cave at Kao Wat Han rock
Cultural groups: Thai
Person: Field collector W.G. Steffen; Field collector Thomas Nelson Annandale; Field collector Herbert Christopher Robinson; PRM source Thomas Nelson Annandale
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1902?, uncertain
Date collected: ? 1901 - 1902
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1902, uncertain Found unentered: Found unentered
Materials and processes: Material Clay, Material Pottery, Process Stamped, Process Inscribed
Dimensions: Length: max 115 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1902.88.550
Research and responses: Thomas Nelson Annandale and Herbert Christopher Robinson undertook an expedition to Perak and the [then] Siamese Malay states in 1901-1902, under the auspices of the Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool. The results of this expedition were published in Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an Expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901-1902, published in London by Longmans, Green in four parts between 1903 and 1907. [SHD 17/5/2001]
Associated publications: Reproduced on Plate M (number 2) of Steffen, A. and N. Annandale 1902. Clay Tablets from Caves in Siamese Malaya. Man 2: 177-180. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2839312?seq=1 [Dan Hicks 11/07/2012]

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