Found by treasurer hunters

Butuan Province in 1970s The strip measures 17.8 x 1.3 cm

Found in wooden coffin dating back Letters were cut using a knife
to the 14th and 15th centuries Letter similar to a Javanese script
Together with human remains with use from the 12th to the 15th century
artificially deformed skulls  Translate using Eskaya script

BUTUAN SILVER PALEOGRAPH

known as the "Butuan Silver Strip
a piece of metal artifact with inscriptions

Indigenous Philippine writings

Communicate with other people in South East Asia
Trading and linkages with South EastAsian Countries
Evidence of the previous existence of Eskaya
kingdom of Butuan
Burial practice of previuos inhabitants
 also known as the "Butuan Silver Strip", is a
piece of metal artifact with inscriptions found
in Butuan province in mid-1970s which is
believed to be owned by important person of
Butuan around the 12th to 15th century.
 The Butuan area has been a rich source of material
from ancient Philippines for both treasure hunters
and trained archaeologists. So it was in the mid-
seventies when a team from the National Museum
of the Philippines excavating a site was told that a
strip of metal with some kind of writing had been
found by a treasure hunter.
 The metal strip was found inside a wooden coffin
together with human remains with artificially
deformed skulls by treasure hunters who were
looking for ceramic and gold objects that could be
sold for high prices to private collectors.
 Fortunately, the artifact was already in the hands of
Proceso Gonzales, the city engineer of Butuan.
 The metal strip measures 17.8 x 1.3 cm and was
curved with letters using a knife . The script is
similar to a Javanese script that had been in use
from the 12th to the 15th century.
 A “translation” of the Butuan silver strip had
been done by using the Eskaya script.
 Script on the metal artifact is one of the indigenous
system writing of the early habitants of the Philippines
to communicate and forms connection with other
countries in Southeast Asian for trading, share
communication and information.
 The artifact is one of the evidence that previously, the
Eskaya kingdom exist in Butuan where in the only
daughter of Dangko of the Eskaya people got married
to a chieftain of Butuan which resulted to close relation
of Butuan and Bohol.
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