The Malay Peninsula: Crossroads of the Maritime Silk Road by Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h

By Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h

This identify makes an attempt to judge the position of the Malay Peninsula as a crossroads within the nice wave of industrial relationships alongside the maritime Silk highway from the 1st centuries of the Christian period to the 14th century. via those exchanges, representatives of all of the civilizations of Asia entered into touch alongside its beaches. They left during this position part of themselves, as might be visible within the nice stylistic range of the non secular and advertisement artefacts which were present in the world. those artefacts were analyzed and classified afresh within the gentle of extra unique info supplied in chinese language texts in regards to the nature of the political entities constructing on the time: usually dynamic urban states or extra modest chiefdoms.

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Ph. FAD. XXXIV LIST OF FIGURES 1 96. aparamita. Discovered in Tha Rua District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand. 1 2'h c. AD. Bronze. H. I I cm. Nakhon Si Thammarat National Museum. Ph. MJH. 1 97. aparamita. Discovered in Songkhla Province, Thailand. 1 3'h c. AD. Bronze. H. 1 9 cm. Wat Phuphaphimuk Museum, Phatthalung. Ph. after O'Connor 1 975: Fig. 9a. 1 98. eSa. Discovered in Songkhla Province, Thailand. Late 1 2'h-early 1 3'h c. AD. Bronze. H. 6 cm. Wat Machimawas Museum, Songkhla. Ph.

MlH. 1 85 . Vi�l)u. Discovered in Wiang Sa District, Surat Thani Province, Thailand. 1 1 th c. AD. Stone. H. 5 1 cm. Bangkok National Museum. Ph. M1H. 1 86. Siirya. Discovered at Wat Sala Tung, Chaiya District, Surat Thani Province, Thailand. l oth_ 1 1 th c. AD. Stone. H. 7 1 cm. Bangkok National Museum. Ph. M1H. 1 87. Head of a divinity. Discovered in the crypt of Wat Suthawat, Muang District, Chumphon Province, Thailand. l oth_ 1 1 th c. AD. Bronze. H. 14 cm. Nakhon Si Thammarat National Museum.

Discovered in Satingpra District, Songkhla Province, Thailand. 1 3'h c. AD. Bronze. H. 1 4 cm. Wat Machimawas Museum, Songkhla. Ph. FAD. 200. Buddha. Discovered at Wat Nan�tra, Tha Sala District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand. 1 2' c. AD. Bronze. H. 43 cm. Wat Phra Borommathat Museum, Nakhon Si Thammarat. Ph. FAD. 20 1 . Votive tablet. Discovered at Khao Chom Thong, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand. 1 2'h c. AD. Fired clay. H. 1 0 cm. Nakhon Si Thammarat National Museum. Ph. MJH.

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