Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c20.s14.t7: 1.13.7 Other explored sites with pottery inscriptions
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c20.s14.t7
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1.13.7 Other explored sites with pottery inscriptions
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Stray finds of pottery inscriptions have been reported from surface explorations or by chance at Attur,¹² Jambai,¹³ T. Kallupatti and S. Pappinayakkanpatti,¹⁴ Odaikalpalaiyam,¹⁵ and Sivakasi¹⁶ (Table 1.⁴, Map II). Two more unpublished inscriptions recently found on the surface at Poluvampatti¹ are noteworthy as the only ones found so far in the Early Vaṭṭeḻuttu script (ca. 5th century A.D.).
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¹² Unpublished. In the collections of TNSA Museum, Karur.
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¹³ Photograph in the report on exploration at Jambai by K. Selvaraj 1981( unpublished), TNSA Library, Chennai.
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¹⁴ Two inscribed sherds from each of these two sites found around 1996 during fieldwork by V. Selvakumar, Deccan College, Pune (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation).
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¹⁵ Unpublished. In the collections of TNSA, Chennai.
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¹⁶ Inscribed sherds found during exploration in the villages of Karaseri, Visvanatham, Tiruttangal and Anaikuttam near Sivakasi. *Dinamani*, Chennai, Sep. 25, 1990 (with photographs).
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¹ Unpublished. In the collections of TNSA Museum, Coimbatore.