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Mueang Uthong
14°22′16″N 99°53′19″E / 14.37111°N 99.88861°E
Mueang Uthong (Thai: เมืองอู่ทอง) is an archaeological site located in the U Thong district, Suphan Buri province . It was inhabited from around the 10th century BC and became the state society in the third to sixth-century CE. Uthong was one of the largest known city-states that emerged around the plains of central Thailand in the first millennium but became abandoned around 1000 AD due to the endemic and lost in major trading cities status. It was resettled in the Ayutthaya period but was abandoned again after the fall of Ayutthaya in the 1760s.
Uthong is also considered the first city-state that practiced Brahmanism and Buddhism in present-day central Thailand. O. W. Wolters speculated that Mueang Uthong was the center of Chen Li Fu, an ancient kingdom mentioned in the Chinese text Sung Hui Yao Kao in 1200 and 1205; however, archaeological findings indicate the city was already deserted during the period mentioned. Meanwhile, Paul Wheatley posited that the site in question was the city-state of Chin Lin, the kingdom King Fan Man of Funan endeavored to annex during the 4th century.
The city of "Balangka, an inland town" (บลังกา), mentioned in the Geographike Hyphegesis of Ptolemy in the 2nd century, has been assumed by Thai scholars to have been Mueang Uthong. As well as Chia-mo-lang-chia or Kamalanka mentioned by the Chinese monk Xuanzang in the 7th century and was said to be located southeast to Sri Ksetra kingdom and west of Dvaravati, was also centered at Mueang Uthong. However, some said it was instead at the ancient Nakhon Pathom.
The results of archaeological studies revealed that the area around U Thong has been inhabited by humans since around 10th BC between the Neolithic and Metal Ages. The evidence found was tools made of stone and metal, such as bronze spear blades, bronze axes, and earring molds made of stone.
Higham states, Radiocarbon determinations from the sites of U-Thong suggest that the transition into complex state societies in the area took place between about 300-600 AD. A copper inscription from the mid-7th century states, "Sri Harshavarman, grandson of Ishanavarman, having expanded his sphere of glory, obtained the lion throne through regular succession," and mentions gifts to a linga. The site includes a moat, 1,690 by 840 m, and the Pra Paton caitya.
According to the archaeological evidence found in the area, Jean Boisselier suggests that Uthong was probably the center or used to be a colony of the Funan Kingdom since the 1st century AD; however, when the Funan Kingdom had lost its power, Uthong therefore became an important trade city of the succeeding kingdom, Dvaravati, in the 7th-11th century AD.
Paul Wheatley suggests that the city-state of "Jinlin" which was mentioned in the Chinese archives of the Liang dynasty as the last state that was occupied by Fan Man, the Great King of Funan Kingdom, in the 4th century AD, might be located in the area of Uthong, since the word "Jinlin" means land of gold or Suvarnabhumi; as mentioned in the archive, it was a state located approximately 2,000 li (800 kilometers) west of the Funan Kingdom, which corresponded to the area of Uthong.
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Mueang Uthong
14°22′16″N 99°53′19″E / 14.37111°N 99.88861°E
Mueang Uthong (Thai: เมืองอู่ทอง) is an archaeological site located in the U Thong district, Suphan Buri province . It was inhabited from around the 10th century BC and became the state society in the third to sixth-century CE. Uthong was one of the largest known city-states that emerged around the plains of central Thailand in the first millennium but became abandoned around 1000 AD due to the endemic and lost in major trading cities status. It was resettled in the Ayutthaya period but was abandoned again after the fall of Ayutthaya in the 1760s.
Uthong is also considered the first city-state that practiced Brahmanism and Buddhism in present-day central Thailand. O. W. Wolters speculated that Mueang Uthong was the center of Chen Li Fu, an ancient kingdom mentioned in the Chinese text Sung Hui Yao Kao in 1200 and 1205; however, archaeological findings indicate the city was already deserted during the period mentioned. Meanwhile, Paul Wheatley posited that the site in question was the city-state of Chin Lin, the kingdom King Fan Man of Funan endeavored to annex during the 4th century.
The city of "Balangka, an inland town" (บลังกา), mentioned in the Geographike Hyphegesis of Ptolemy in the 2nd century, has been assumed by Thai scholars to have been Mueang Uthong. As well as Chia-mo-lang-chia or Kamalanka mentioned by the Chinese monk Xuanzang in the 7th century and was said to be located southeast to Sri Ksetra kingdom and west of Dvaravati, was also centered at Mueang Uthong. However, some said it was instead at the ancient Nakhon Pathom.
The results of archaeological studies revealed that the area around U Thong has been inhabited by humans since around 10th BC between the Neolithic and Metal Ages. The evidence found was tools made of stone and metal, such as bronze spear blades, bronze axes, and earring molds made of stone.
Higham states, Radiocarbon determinations from the sites of U-Thong suggest that the transition into complex state societies in the area took place between about 300-600 AD. A copper inscription from the mid-7th century states, "Sri Harshavarman, grandson of Ishanavarman, having expanded his sphere of glory, obtained the lion throne through regular succession," and mentions gifts to a linga. The site includes a moat, 1,690 by 840 m, and the Pra Paton caitya.
According to the archaeological evidence found in the area, Jean Boisselier suggests that Uthong was probably the center or used to be a colony of the Funan Kingdom since the 1st century AD; however, when the Funan Kingdom had lost its power, Uthong therefore became an important trade city of the succeeding kingdom, Dvaravati, in the 7th-11th century AD.
Paul Wheatley suggests that the city-state of "Jinlin" which was mentioned in the Chinese archives of the Liang dynasty as the last state that was occupied by Fan Man, the Great King of Funan Kingdom, in the 4th century AD, might be located in the area of Uthong, since the word "Jinlin" means land of gold or Suvarnabhumi; as mentioned in the archive, it was a state located approximately 2,000 li (800 kilometers) west of the Funan Kingdom, which corresponded to the area of Uthong.
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