{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "phra-khong",
 "level": "kind",
 "parent": null,
 "names": {
  "th": "พระคง",
  "roman": "phra khong",
  "en": "Phra Khong (Lamphun cache tablet)",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "พระคงลำพูน",
    "พระคง กรุวัดพระคงฤๅษี"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "phra kong",
    "phra khong lamphun"
   ],
   "en": [
    "Phra Kong amulet"
   ]
  }
 },
 "region": [
  "th-north"
 ],
 "axes": {
  "class": "phra_khrueang",
  "functions": [
   "khong_kraphan",
   "khlaeo_khlat"
  ],
  "materials": [
   "nuea_din"
  ],
  "figures": [
   "buddha"
  ]
 },
 "form": {
  "type": "tablet",
  "shape_th": "พระพิมพ์ดินเผาขนาดเล็ก ทรงเกือบสามเหลี่ยม ฐานกว้าง ยอดมน",
  "shape_en": "Small fired-earth tablet, roughly triangular with a broad base and rounded top; Haripunchai-style pressed image",
  "size_mm": null,
  "wearable_th": "เลี่ยมห้อยคอ",
  "wearable_en": "Worn at the neck in a frame",
  "obverse_th": "องค์พระประทับนั่งใต้ซุ้มใบโพธิ์",
  "obverse_en": "A seated Buddha beneath a canopy of bodhi leaves",
  "reverse_th": "เรียบ นูนเล็กน้อย บางองค์มีรอยนิ้ว",
  "reverse_en": "Plain, slightly convex; some carry a finger impression",
  "notes_en": "The bodhi-leaf canopy and the exact mould geometry are trade description (tradition); the wat article says only that the tablets are fired earth in black and red, found in quantity with พระบาง."
 },
 "iconography": [
  {
   "th": "องค์พระนั่งสมาธิ",
   "en": "seated Buddha in meditation"
  },
  {
   "th": "ซุ้มใบโพธิ์",
   "en": "bodhi-leaf canopy around the figure (trade description)"
  }
 ],
 "origin": {
  "wat_slug": "wat-phra-khong-ruesi",
  "wat_th": "วัดพระคงฤๅษี",
  "wat_en": "Wat Phra Khong Ruesi, Mueang Lamphun",
  "maker_th": "ตำนานยกให้ฤๅษีสมัยพระนางจามเทวี",
  "maker_en": "Legend assigns the tablets to the hermits (ฤๅษี) of Queen Chamadevi's Hariphunchai; no maker is named",
  "era_th": "หริภุญชัย (ตำนานว่าวัดสร้าง พ.ศ. 1200)",
  "era_en": "Hariphunchai period; the wat's founding legend gives B.E. 1200, which is legend, not a date for the tablets",
  "place_th": "ลำพูน",
  "place_en": "Lamphun",
  "first_attested": "",
  "wat_url": "https://wichaa.net/place/wat-phra-khong-ruesi/"
 },
 "diagnostics": [
  {
   "th": "เนื้อดินเผา สีดำและสีแดง แบบหริภุญชัย",
   "en": "Fired-earth body in black or red, Haripunchai-style; a metal or powder body is another kind",
   "source": "s:th-wiki-wat-phra-khong-ruesi",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "th": "พบในกรุเจดีย์วัดพระคงฤๅษีคู่กับพระบาง",
   "en": "Cache-found in the wat's chedis together with พระบาง; the two share a body and are separated by mould",
   "source": "s:th-wiki-wat-phra-khong-ruesi",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "th": "ทรงป้อมกว่าพระรอด ใบโพธิ์เป็นซุ้มรอบองค์",
   "en": "Stockier than a พระรอด, the bodhi leaves forming a canopy round the figure; the trade reads the leaf pattern first",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "คราบกรุและรอยตัดขอบตามอายุ — เนื้อดินไม่เกิดสนิม",
   "en": "Age reads as cache crust and edge wear, never rust: the fired-earth dating signal on the material axis",
   "source": "s:vault-materials",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "phra-rot",
   "tell_th": "พระรอดเล็กกว่า เรียวกว่า จากกรุวัดมหาวัน · พระคงป้อมกว่า จากกรุวัดพระคงฤๅษี ทั้งคู่ดินเผาหริภุญชัย",
   "tell_en": "Same class, same fired-earth body, same city. A พระรอด is smaller and finer, from the Wat Mahawan cache; a พระคง is stockier, from the Wat Phra Khong Ruesi cache. Mould, not material, tells them apart."
  },
  {
   "id": "phra-kru",
   "tell_th": "พระกรุคือหมวดใหญ่ของพระที่พบในกรุ พระคงเป็นสมาชิกหนึ่งที่มีชื่อเอง",
   "tell_en": "พระกรุ is the umbrella for any cache find; พระคง is one named member of it"
  },
  {
   "id": "phra-sum-ko",
   "tell_th": "พระซุ้มกอเป็นดินเผากำแพงเพชร ซุ้มเป็นลายกนก ไม่ใช่ใบโพธิ์",
   "tell_en": "A พระซุ้มกอ is fired earth from Kamphaeng Phet with a kanok-scroll arch; the พระคง arch is bodhi leaves"
  },
  {
   "id": "phra-nang-phaya",
   "tell_th": "พระนางพญาเป็นดินเผาพิษณุโลก ทรงสามเหลี่ยม ไม่มีซุ้ม",
   "tell_en": "A พระนางพญา is a Phitsanulok fired-earth triangle with no canopy at all"
  }
 ],
 "market": {
  "search": [
   "พระคง"
  ],
  "excludes": [
   "พระคงกระพัน",
   "พระคงทน"
  ],
  "tier": "both"
 },
 "media": {
  "commons_categories": [],
  "commons_files": [],
  "wanted_en": "No free Commons photograph of a พระคง was found (searches on พระคง, Phra Khong, Haripunchai votive tablet). Needed: obverse straight on showing the leaf canopy, reverse, and a side-by-side with a พระรอด at the same scale."
 },
 "text": {
  "what_th": "พระพิมพ์ดินเผาหริภุญชัยจากกรุวัดพระคงฤๅษี ลำพูน คู่แฝดของพระรอด องค์พระนั่งใต้ซุ้มใบโพธิ์ ชื่อ “คง” ทำให้คนถือเป็นพระคงกระพัน",
  "what_en": "A Hariphunchai fired-earth tablet from the cache at Wat Phra Khong Ruesi in Lamphun, the stockier twin of the พระรอด: a seated Buddha under bodhi leaves. The name คง (endure) is why the trade reads it as a คงกระพัน amulet.",
  "story_th": "ตำนานวัดว่าพระนางจามเทวีสร้างวัดนี้ตรงที่ฤๅษีวาสุเทพใช้ไม้เท้าขีดผังเมือง มีเจดีย์ที่บรรจุพระคงและพระบางไว้จำนวนมาก การบูรณะเปิดกรุพบพระพิมพ์ดินเผาสีดำและแดง",
  "story_en": "The wat's legend has Queen Chamadevi build it where the hermit Vasudeva sketched the city plan with his staff, with hermit figures at the four gates. Its stupas held fired-earth tablets in black and red, and a restoration that opened the chedis turned up พระคง and พระบาง in quantity. The trade groups it with the other Lamphun cache finds and prices it well below the พระรอด.",
  "keeping_th": "ไม่มีผู้อยู่ ไม่ต้องเลี้ยง คำถามเรื่องที่มาคือแท้หรือไม่และราคา ไม่ใช่ความปลอดภัยทางวิญญาณ",
  "keeping_en": "Nobody home and nothing owed. The provenance question is authenticity and price, never spiritual safety."
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:th-wiki-wat-phra-khong-ruesi",
  "s:th-wiki-phra-khrueang",
  "s:vault-classes",
  "s:vault-materials",
  "s:tradition"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:tradition"
  },
  "fields": {
   "origin": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:th-wiki-wat-phra-khong-ruesi"
   },
   "text.story_en": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:th-wiki-wat-phra-khong-ruesi",
    "note": "the last sentence is tradition"
   },
   "axes.class": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes"
   },
   "axes.functions": {
    "tier": "tradition",
    "source": "s:tradition",
    "note": "from the name คง and trade usage; not attested in a source we hold"
   },
   "market": {
    "tier": "inference"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-02",
 "class_facts": {
  "key": "phra_khrueang",
  "term": "พระเครื่อง",
  "roman": "phra khrueang",
  "en_gloss": "Buddhist amulet",
  "resident": "none",
  "upkeep": "none",
  "provenance_sensitivity": "low",
  "definition": "A votive Buddha image or famous-monk amulet. Power = the barami of the maker plus the consecration (ปลุกเสก). No occupant. Its provenance question is purely one of authenticity and market value, never of spiritual safety.",
  "confidence": "high"
 },
 "function_terms": [
  {
   "key": "khong_kraphan",
   "term": "คงกระพัน",
   "roman": "khong kraphan",
   "en": "invulnerability to blades",
   "definition": "The body cannot be cut or pierced. Classically paired with ชาตรี in the martial compound คงกระพันชาตรี. Says nothing about firearms — that is มหาอุด."
  },
  {
   "key": "khlaeo_khlat",
   "term": "แคล้วคลาด",
   "roman": "khlaeo khlat",
   "en": "evasion, narrow escape",
   "definition": "Harm passes by — the accident happens to the next vehicle, the bullet goes wide, you left the building early. Distinct in kind from คงกระพัน: nothing strikes you at all, so nothing needs to be resisted."
  }
 ],
 "material_terms": [
  {
   "key": "nuea_din",
   "term": "เนื้อดิน",
   "roman": "nuea din",
   "en": "clay body",
   "definition": "Clay pressed in a mould and fired. The body of พระรอด, พระนางพญา and พระผงสุพรรณ — the last of which is named ผง but is fired earth, a naming trap worth knowing. Fire colour ranges widely within a single kiln load, so colour alone settles nothing."
  }
 ],
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "th-north",
   "th": "ล้านนา · ภาคเหนือ",
   "en": "Lanna / Northern Thailand"
  }
 ],
 "market_stats": {
  "listings": 2,
  "priced": 2,
  "median_thb": 134.965,
  "typical_thb": [
   129.0,
   140.93
  ],
  "source": "s:catalog-db",
  "tier": "catalogue",
  "note": "title matches only; delete-then-test excludes applied"
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tier_labels": {
  "en": {
   "catalogue": "Catalogue — checkable against the corpus (catalog.db, a transcribed treatise)",
   "cited": "Cited — a named external source, linked",
   "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the wider tradition, hedged",
   "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
   "field": "Field — someone stood there"
  },
  "th": {
   "catalogue": "จากคลัง",
   "cited": "อ้างอิงแหล่ง",
   "tradition": "ตามประเพณี",
   "inference": "อนุมาน",
   "field": "พบเห็นเอง"
  }
 }
}