Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Phase
Cultural Developments circa First
to the 14th Centuries CE
Other Developments
Writing was another factor which could have
facilitated the leveling of interisland differences.
Evidences:
1) A strip of gold with inscriptions found in Butuan
in the 1970s;
2) A clay pot with inscriptions on its shoulder found in
Calatagan,Batangas with ashes inside.
3) A copper plate found in Pila, Lagunawhich was
gauged to be a semiofficial document of acquittal of
a debt incurred by a person in high office, together
with his whole family, all relatives and descendants.
Inscriptions are believed to be in use in the 10th
Century, of Hindu cosmology.
Indian-Indonesian Cultural
Influences Thru Trade
Figurines:
1) A 21-carat gold figurine recovered from a riverbank in
northeastern Mindanaoprobably a Buddhist Tara (Queen
Mahamaya, mother of the Buddha), with Tantric connections;
now kept at the gem room of the Field Museum of Natural
History in Chicago, USA (a lot of our gold artifacts are now in
USA; looted during the Filipino-American War);
2) A BoddhisattvaLokesvara of the Siamese type; a threeinch diameter figurine found in 1843 in Cebu;
3) A clay medallion found in Calatagan, Batangas in 1961
Avalokitesvara-Padmapani artifact belonging to the 12th or 13th
Century CE Buddho-Siamese art;
4) A gold Garuda recovered in Brookes Point, Palawan; a
vahana (vehicle) of Vishnu