Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch2:7

Plates in the ancient world

Plates in the ancient world

In India and the Far East....[we find] the Kalawan copper-plate inscription of the year 134, which records the depositing of relics in a shrine, and is "about contemporary with the Taxila silver scroll inscription of the year 136."[1]

Notes

  1. Hugh W. Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Mormon, 3rd edition, (Vol. 6 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), edited by John W. Welch, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988), Chapter 2, citing Sten Konow, "Kalawan Copper-Plate Inscription of the Year 134," JRAS (1932), 950, 964—65..