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Das Museum für Asiatische Kunst in Berlin besitzt über einhundertzwanzig glasierte Reliefplatten, die einst mehrere Tempel aus dem 11. bis 13. Jahrhundert in Pagan (Burma/Myanmar) zierten. Sie präsentieren Szenen aus dem Leben früherer Existenzen des Buddhas, sogenannte Jātakas. Ziel des Buches ist es, einen umfassenden Überblick über die im Museum vorhandenen Reliefplatten zu geben. Zur Einführung in die Thematik erläutert Marek Buchmann die Geschichte der Region und des einstigen Königreichs Pagan, die Architektur der Tempel und die textlichen Grundlagen der Jātaka-Illustration. Den Hauptteil der Arbeit bildet die stilistisch übergreifende Analyse der Reliefplatten. Ein Vergleich mit anderen Reliefplatten und Tempelmalereien aus Pagan sowie verwandten Beispielen aus der ostindischen Kunst dieser Zeit ermöglicht schließlich die Einordnung der Reliefplatten des Museums in die burmesische Tradition der Jātaka-Darstellung. Ausführliche Tabellen im Anhang des Buches präsentieren erstmalig das gesamte Korpus an Reliefplatten in geordneter und aktueller Form.

The present volume represents the third and ? nal part of Marek Buchmann’s study of northern Thai stone inscriptions from the 14th to the 17th century. It is intended to give a preliminary grammatical overview of epigraphic Lanna Thai in Fak Kham script and is part of a series consisting of an epigraphic glossary and a catalog of inscriptions, published as AKM 73,1 and AKM 73,2, respectively. The grammar serves as an aid to better understand the vocabulary in its inscriptional context. It consists of three main parts: phonology and orthography, syntax, and lexicon. The appendix offers detailed lists of grammatical terms and additional tables, which are a very useful aid for the reading of time and date in inscriptions. The vocabulary of the northern Thai stone inscriptions corpus is con? ned to one group of texts only and covers a well-de? ned, limited historical time range. Nevertheless, the grammar may also serve as an aid for the interpretation of other contemporaneous Thai texts of other regions. Even though this book can be used independently, it may still require consulting the Catalogue (AKM 73,2) for complete references to all available texts, images, rubbings or the location of cited inscriptions as original source. And although interlinear glosses have been provided in the text samples appearing in this volume, the reader may still wish to consult the Glossary (AKM 73,1) for more detailed lexical information.

Marek Buchmann’s catalogue of stone inscriptions – the second part of a two-volume study* – is even for Thailand the first of its kind; there is no other epigraphic catalogue in print. It combines and compares all available metadata, all indices and all publications available. Every source is treated equally. Publications in European languages and indices are included in the same way as Thai publications. The main catalogue now covers all stone inscriptions from Northern provinces of Thailand. In addition to all data already compiled, the catalogue supplies new unpublished metadata. All information is published in English, giving even non-Thai researchers access to the huge mass of inscriptional material for the first time. A text carved in stone does not change over time (unlike its supporting material), but readings and interpretations by different philologists do. With this catalogue, finally a proper inscriptional corpus was compiled. It is the necessary basis for the glossary as the first part, and it is an important and useful tool for any other researcher. * 73,1 Glossary in preparation.

The Glossary is the first part of Marek Buchmann’s two-volume study of northern Thai stone inscriptions. The result of long and extensive field and museum research, the glossary covers the vocabulary of 173 Thai stone inscriptions, from the beginnings in 1339 AD to 1616/1617 AD. The glossary includes every occurrence of a word in the corpus and, most importantly, every attested spelling variant. Glossary entries provided include all occurrences of a particular vocabulary item. There are a total of 4.690+ different lexical entries with all attested spelling variants. Translation is usually given for that variant of a word occurring most often. Every word has, at most, three keyword-in-context (KWIC) references. This Glossary is intended to be a first step towards establishing proper readings and translations of northern Thai stone inscriptions. It is intended to assist the researcher in the editing and translation of epigraphic texts, as well as the linguist interested in the analysis of medieval regional Thai varieties. The second volume next to this glossary consists of a comprehensive catalogue.