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date of the Kyaikp'on Pagoda is to be placed earlier than the 13th century, we get a date for these glazed portrait bricks, vie., at the latest the 10th century A. D., and by analogy a similar date for the deposit of similar votive offerings in the caves. Assuming the remains to be of Cambodian origin, then, as the Cambodian power lasted in these parts from the 6th to the 10th centuries, the period between them would be that in which the bulk of the older deposits must have been made.
To sum up the evidence so far available, it may be said that the older cavo romains, it Cambodian, date between the 6th and 10th centuries A. D.: if Siamese, the date must be put forward to the 13th or 14th century.
Plate VIII. fig. 1, and Plates X. and XI.
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Index to Plate VIII. fig. 1. Plate VITT. fig. 1 shews selected specimens from the collection of glazed bricks from Pegu (see ante, p. 340) in the Phayre Museum, Rangoon. Some are said to have come from Syriam, but I cannot say which. They are sufficient in number and variety to shew the point of the remark already made that the whole set must have represented the march, battle, flight and defent of an ogre army. The march of armed ogree is depicted in figs. (13), (14), (15), (16) and (17): the battle in figs. (1), (2), (7), (8), (9), (10). (11) and (12): the flight in figs. (6) and (18): the defeat, as shewn in attitudes of supplication, in (3), (4), (5), and (19).
Plates X. and XI. shew some similar figures to those in this instructive Plate in greater detail. In Plate X. two couples of the army marching are shewn, and one, fig. (3), of the flight. Figure (1) represents the prisoners, two women in the tight fitting drawers, or girded skirt, of the tower orders of the Malays and Siamese. The trank and legs, as amongst these women still, are baro. Plate XI. exhibits the battle in figs. (5), (6) and (7), while fig. (8) represents the flight.
