Photograph of the stela bearing the unfinished inscription , with the temple of Po Klaong Girai in the background. Taken by William Southworth on .
Photograph of the stela bearing the unfinished inscription , with the temple of Po Klaong Girai in the background. Taken by William Southworth on .
Photograph of the stela bearing the unfinished inscription C. 224, with the temple of Po Klaong Girai in the background. Taken by William Southworth on 13 July 2004.
Photograph of the unfinished inscription . Taken at Po Klaong Girai by William Southworth on .
Photograph of the unfinished inscription . Taken at Po Klaong Girai by William Southworth on .
Photograph of the unfinished inscription C. 224. Taken at Po Klaong Girai by William Southworth on 13 July 2004.
Photograph of EFEO estampage n. 1948.
Photograph of EFEO estampage n. 1948.
Photograph of EFEO estampage n. 1948.

C. 224 Stela at Po Klaong Girai

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Support Stela; sandstone; h. 197 cm (visible, i.e. without tenon) × w. 89 × d. 48.

Text Stela bearing an unfinished inscription probably intended to be written in Old Cam.

Date 13th or 14th Century Śaka (14th or 15th Century CE).

Origin Temple of Po Klaong Girai (Ninh Thuân, Vietnam).

We found the stela in situ in 2009. The stela surprisingly does not seem to figure in any of the existing literature on the site of Po Klaong Girai, but it was pointed out to the CIC team in 2009 by team-member William Southworth, who knew it from his previous fieldwork at the site (ECIC III: 475).

Edition(s) Previously unpublished.

Facsimile

  • Estampage: EFEO n. 1948

The following text was edited by William Southworth.

om̐
namaś śivāya

Translations

English

Om. Homage to Śiva.

French

Om. Hommage à Śiva.

Commentary

This is not the only instance of an unfinished inscription: see C. 128.

Secondary Bibliography