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 "schema": 1,
 "id": "phra-phong-suphan",
 "level": "kind",
 "parent": null,
 "names": {
  "th": "พระผงสุพรรณ",
  "roman": "phra phong suphan",
  "en": "Phra Phong Suphan (Suphan Buri triangular tablet)",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "ผงสุพรรณ",
    "พระผงสุพรรณบุรี"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "phra pong suphan",
    "pong suphan",
    "phong suphan"
   ],
   "en": [
    "Phra Pong Suphan"
   ]
  }
 },
 "region": [
  "th-central"
 ],
 "axes": {
  "class": "phra_khrueang",
  "functions": [
   "khong_kraphan",
   "khlaeo_khlat",
   "metta_maha_niyom"
  ],
  "materials": [
   "nuea_din"
  ],
  "figures": [
   "buddha"
  ]
 },
 "form": {
  "type": "tablet",
  "shape_th": "สามเหลี่ยม เนื้อดินเผาละเอียด",
  "shape_en": "A triangular tablet of fine fired clay",
  "size_mm": [
   20,
   30,
   5
  ],
  "wearable_th": "ห้อยคอในตลับ",
  "wearable_en": "Worn at the neck in a case",
  "obverse_th": "องค์พระปางมารวิชัย ศิลปะอู่ทอง",
  "obverse_en": "A Maravijaya Buddha in U Thong style",
  "reverse_th": "เรียบ มักมีรอยนิ้วมือ",
  "reverse_en": "Plain; finger impressions are usual",
  "notes_en": "Named ผง (powder) but the body is fired earth, a naming trap the material axis flags. The three face-types (หน้าแก่ หน้ากลาง หน้าหนุ่ม) are trade names, recorded as tradition."
 },
 "iconography": [
  {
   "th": "ปางมารวิชัย",
   "en": "Maravijaya posture"
  },
  {
   "th": "พระพักตร์แบบอู่ทอง — หน้าแก่ หน้ากลาง หน้าหนุ่ม",
   "en": "U Thong face, sorted by the trade into old, middle and young face-types"
  },
  {
   "th": "ทรงสามเหลี่ยม",
   "en": "triangular field"
  }
 ],
 "origin": {
  "wat_slug": null,
  "wat_th": "วัดพระศรีรัตนมหาธาตุ สุพรรณบุรี",
  "wat_en": "Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat, Suphan Buri",
  "maker_th": "ลานทองจารึกกล่าวถึงฤๅษีผู้สร้าง (ตามที่วงการเล่า)",
  "maker_en": "An inscribed gold plate from the prang is said to credit hermits with the making; the plate's text is not cited here",
  "era_th": "สมัยอู่ทอง เปิดกรุพระปรางค์ พ.ศ. ๒๔๕๖ พบลานทองจารึกภาษามคธอักษรขอม",
  "era_en": "U Thong period; the prang was opened in 1913 (B.E. 2456) and yielded a gold plate inscribed in Pali in Khom script, per Thai Wikipedia",
  "place_th": "สุพรรณบุรี",
  "place_en": "Suphan Buri",
  "first_attested": "เปิดกรุ พ.ศ. 2456 (th.wikipedia, วัดพระศรีรัตนมหาธาตุ)"
 },
 "diagnostics": [
  {
   "th": "ชื่อว่าผงแต่เนื้อเป็นดินเผา — กับดักชื่อที่แกนวัสดุเตือนไว้",
   "en": "Called phong but fired earth: the name is a trap the material axis names outright",
   "source": "s:vault-materials",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "ทรงสามเหลี่ยม ปางมารวิชัย ศิลปะอู่ทอง",
   "en": "Triangular field, Maravijaya, U Thong facial style",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "เนื้อละเอียดกว่านางพญา สีหลากตามไฟ",
   "en": "Finer body than Nang Phaya; colour varies with the firing",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "อายุอ่านจากการหดตัวและคราบกรุ ไม่ใช่สนิม",
   "en": "Age reads as shrinkage and cache crust, never patina",
   "source": "s:vault-materials",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "ด้านหลังมักมีรอยนิ้ว",
   "en": "Reverse usually carries a finger impression from pressing",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "phra-nang-phaya",
   "tell_th": "สามเหลี่ยมดินเผาเหมือนกัน · นางพญาเนื้อหยาบ พิษณุโลก · ผงสุพรรณเนื้อละเอียด หน้าอู่ทอง สุพรรณบุรี",
   "tell_en": "Both are triangular fired-clay Maravijaya tablets. Nang Phaya is coarse and from Phitsanulok; Phong Suphan is finer, U Thong-faced, from Suphan Buri."
  },
  {
   "id": "phra-somdet",
   "tell_th": "พระสมเด็จเนื้อผงขาวจริง สี่เหลี่ยม มีซุ้ม · ผงสุพรรณชื่อผงแต่เป็นดินเผา สามเหลี่ยม",
   "tell_en": "A somdej is real white powder in a rectangle with an arch; Phong Suphan is fired clay in a triangle despite its name."
  },
  {
   "id": "phra-phong-bai-lan",
   "tell_th": "ผงใบลานเป็นผงเผาใบลานสีดำเทา · ผงสุพรรณเป็นดินเผา",
   "tell_en": "Palm-leaf-ash tablets are black-grey pressed powder; Phong Suphan is fired earth. Only the word ผง links them."
  }
 ],
 "market": {
  "search": [
   "ผงสุพรรณ"
  ],
  "excludes": [],
  "tier": "both"
 },
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   "Category:Buddhist amulets of Thailand"
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  "wanted_en": "The two single-subject files are uploader images with no reverse or scale. Needed: obverse, reverse with finger impression, edge, and a face-type comparison at matched scale."
 },
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   "credit": "Own work",
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   "alt_th": "พระผงสุพรรณ",
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   "credit": "Own work",
   "view": "other",
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 "text": {
  "what_th": "พระพิมพ์ดินเผาทรงสามเหลี่ยมจากกรุพระปรางค์วัดพระศรีรัตนมหาธาตุ สุพรรณบุรี ปางมารวิชัยศิลปะอู่ทอง ชื่อว่าผงแต่เป็นดินเผา หนึ่งในเบญจภาคี ไม่มีผู้ใดสถิตอยู่",
  "what_en": "A triangular fired-clay tablet from the prang cache at Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat, Suphan Buri: a Maravijaya Buddha with a U Thong face. Called powder, made of earth. One of the Benjaphakhi five; nobody is home.",
  "story_th": "พ.ศ. ๒๔๕๖ เปิดกรุพระปรางค์ พบลานทองจารึกภาษามคธอักษรขอมพร้อมพระพิมพ์ วงการเล่าว่าจารึกกล่าวถึงฤๅษีผู้สร้างและอานุภาพ ตรียัมปวายจัดเข้าชุดเบญจภาคีราว พ.ศ. ๒๔๙๐",
  "story_en": "In 1913 the prang at Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat was opened and a gold plate inscribed in Pali in Khom script came out with the tablets; the trade holds that the inscription names hermits as makers and promises protection, but that text is not cited here. Thai Wikipedia dates the tablets to the U Thong period. Triyampavai's set of around 1947 placed it among the five.",
  "keeping_th": "ไม่มีผู้อยู่ ไม่ต้องเลี้ยง บูชาได้โดยไม่ต้องรู้ประวัติ",
  "keeping_en": "Nobody home, nothing owed. Safe to adopt with unknown history; its provenance question is age and authenticity, never spiritual safety."
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:vault-classes",
  "s:vault-materials",
  "s:vault-functions",
  "s:th-wiki-phra-khrueang",
  "s:en-wiki-thai-amulet",
  "s:tradition",
  "s:th-wiki-wat-mahathat-suphan"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:tradition"
  },
  "fields": {
   "axes": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes"
   },
   "axes.materials": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-materials"
   },
   "origin.era_en": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:th-wiki-wat-mahathat-suphan"
   },
   "origin.wat_en": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:th-wiki-phra-khrueang"
   },
   "form.size_mm": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "typical range, not measured"
   },
   "text.keeping_en": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes"
   },
   "market": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "search term chosen by this record"
   }
  }
 },
 "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."
  },
  {
   "key": "metta_maha_niyom",
   "term": "เมตตามหานิยม",
   "roman": "metta maha niyom",
   "en": "loving-kindness and wide popularity",
   "definition": "Broad social favour — people are well-disposed, superiors are lenient, customers return. Built on เมตตา, the Buddhist virtue, and respectable to carry and to sell."
  }
 ],
 "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-central",
   "th": "ภาคกลาง",
   "en": "Central Thailand (Bangkok, Ayutthaya basin)"
  }
 ],
 "market_stats": {
  "listings": 7,
  "priced": 7,
  "median_thb": 105.0,
  "typical_thb": [
   59.0,
   299.0
  ],
  "source": "s:catalog-db",
  "tier": "catalogue",
  "note": "title matches only; delete-then-test excludes applied"
 },
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  "file": "phra-phong-suphan/phra-phong-suphan-phra-pong-suphan-02c3b5.png",
  "source": "commons",
  "title": "File:Phra Pong Suphan.png",
  "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Phra_Pong_Suphan.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
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  "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0",
  "author": "Somdej.watrakang",
  "credit": "Own work",
  "view": "other",
  "alt_th": "พระผงสุพรรณ",
  "alt_en": "Phra Phong Suphan (Suphan Buri triangular tablet) — Phra Pong Suphan",
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  "width": 1684,
  "height": 877,
  "primary": true
 },
 "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"
  }
 }
}