Name: Justin Anonuevo Date: 2022 – 09 – 27

Course/Section: BSIT302A
“LCI Analysis”
Questions:
1. What is Laguna Copperplate Inscription?
2. What does the document/artifact say?
3. What was the provenance or source of the document/artifact?
4. Who authored/translated the document/artifact?
5. What is the context of the primary source?

Answer:
1. The Laguna copperplate inscription is an official acquittance
inscribed onto a copper plate in the Shaka year 822. It is the
earliest known calendar-dated document found within the
Philippine Islands.

2. The document is about the issue regarding the dispute between

the Philippines and Malaysia for the possession of the state,
Sabah, and that this issue has been used to mislead Filipinos on
the real status of the Philippines. According to the document, the
reason behind the Philippines' claim is that the Sultanof Sulu was
said to be the successor of the territory from the Sultan of
Brunei so presumably, Sabah is a part of the Philippines and has
the sovereignty over it. Marcos, who was the president at that
time, took this issue as an advantage to divert the attention of the
Filipinos from the actual situation happening in us Country.
3. About Provenance - Provenance refers to the sources of
information, such as entities and processes, involved in producing
or delivering an artifact.
What is the provenance of a source?
Provenance is the term used for a source's 'background' – its nature,
origin, and purpose. Your own knowledge must relate to the source
itself. Only write about events in order to prove what the source says
is useful, or not – do not just narrate.

4. The translator of LCI is Hector Santos Since the original text of the
LCI was written in a script that not too many people know how to
read, it is presented here in the Latin alphabet. Unlike
the transliteration, it does not employ strange diacritics whose
meanings and functions are unknown to most people. For this
reason, is an easier way to read the Kavi text of the LCI. Read it as
you would read plain English with a few exceptions. Aspirated
consonants (not present in normal English) are shown as digraphs
with "h" as the second component, e.g., bh, dh, kh, and th. Thus,
"th" is not pronounced like "th" in "thin" or "then," but like "th" in
"cathouse." However, "ch" and "sh" are pronounced normally as
in "church" and "shell," respectively.

5. Primary sources in context - The nature of a source is determined

by the way a researcher makes use of it. The same item might be
considered a primary source in one investigation and a secondary
source in another.