UKIT sa BANGA

Orietal Ceramic Society of the Philippines North Forbes, Makati- October 25, 2011

UKIT sa BANGA: Ancient Clay Inscriptions

Oriental Ceramic Society of the Philippines October 25,2011

In the 1950s, after the end of World War II, as the country gradually returned to normalcy, Archaeological work and research resumed with the Americans Robert B. Fox and Wilhelm G. Solheim II and their Filipino associates and students: E. Arsenio Manuel, Avelino Legaspi, Alfredo E. Evangelista, and Jesus T. Peralta.

Our ancestors had an early concept of Life after death as depicted on the Manuggul Jar. It was found in Lipuun point, Quezon, Palawan.
Philipine National Museum

UP Archaeologiical Studies Program

Artes de las Pilipinas 2009

The mythical symbolism of birds in Philippine folk literature is closely related to origins and creation stories. Such imagery reflects a possible total world view of the people from birth to death ang perhaps a re-birth into the afterlife.

15 Acharcado : Laua pc : estar el camino por las muchas aguas, nasalaua 8.ac. estar a la gunado el camino ansi, nagcacalaua 9. aver muchos charcos ansi, nagcacalaua mandin ytong daan, siempre esta acharcado este camino. Acharcado : Bulosan pp : camino por gran lluvia, nabubulosan 8.ac. estar el camino acharcado ansi, o por pasar agua por el a la larga, nagcacabolosan 9. estar muy acharcado.

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National Museum: Archaeology Division

The Manunggul Jar is a National Treasure of the Philippines. It is designated item 64-MO-74 in the National Museum . Discovered on March 1964 by Victor Decalan and Hans Kasten (National Museum/US Peace Corps). The Jar was recovered at Chamber A of Manunggul Cave (dated 890 - 710 BC). It is part of Tabon Cave Complex in Lipuun Point, Quezon, Palawan Excavations at Tabon by Robert Fox began in1962.

Ship-of-the-dead The Manunggul jar portrait is on the 1000 Philippine peso bill. The style of decoration (depiction of sea-waves) places this jar in the Sa-hunh-Kalanay Pottery tradition of Southern Vietnam.
(Solheim 1981) Artes de las Pilipinas 2009

Methodology:
W

Jar Lid

1 2 3 4

X
Form Circle Lines

Reading Directions: Baseline Datum

Case 1 Line on Top (original)- X Rotated 180 degrees -Y Case 2 Line at Bottom (original)- V Rotated 180 degrees - W

Reading Starting Point

Line 1
Original Manunggul Jar: (Height 66.5 cm; approx diameter 52 cm) Kaban ng Lahi Gallery, National Museum, Manila
Line 1 Line 2

Replica

Line 1 Counterclockwise reading P t O pa ta u From

Vocabulario de Lengua Tagala: San Buena Ventura 1613 Segunda Parte p. 686 Interpreting the script as m U ma u was dropped due to the absence of the word in the 1613 San Buena Ventura dictionary. pdO pa da u or pa ra u (parao Visayan for boat) is another posibility and a clockwise reading will yield dlO da la u or da la u (dalao or visitar in Spanish).

Pa ta u or pa ta o - Spanish Onesto, Pescar, Maca 1.Onesto : Patao pc : en todos su acto, y trato, patavang loob, persona onesta en todas sus cosas; tavong patao ang loob sicovan, es hombre muy onesto fulano.
SB 1613 Pahina 454 (in all his act, and deal; in all his things; is a very honest wo/man).

2.Onesto : Tintin pc : de cuerpo y obras; matintin ang loob, ad : el tal; matintin cang loob, eres onesto. (body and works; you honest).

Line 1 Clockwise reading

A d O a da u

adau = arau arau = arao

Figure on Right : From Vocabulario de Lengua Tagala: San Buena Ventura 1613 Segunda Parte p. 624

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