page_title: Quilon Syrian copper plates
hierarchical_section_title: Quilon Syrian copper plates
caption_attribution_description: English: Quilon Syrian copper plates (849 and c. 883 CE)
context_page_description: Kollam/Quilon Syrian copper plates, also known as Kollam Tarisappalli copper plates, or Kottayam inscription of Sthanu Ravi, or Tabula Quilonensis record a royal grant issued by the chieftain of Kollam to a Syrian Christian merchant magnate in Kerala. The royal charter is engraved in old Malayalam in Vattezhuthu on six copper plates. The document is one of the important historical inscriptions of Kerala, the date of which has been accurately determined.
  The charter is dated to the 5th regnal year of the Chera/Perumal ruler Sthanu Ravi "Kulasekhara". The sixth plate contains a number of signatures of the witnesses to the grant in Arabic, Middle Persian and Judeo-Persian. Until recently it was believed that six plates formed two separate grants issued by Kerala rulers to the Syrian Christian merchants.
  One part of the copper plates is kept at the Devalokam Aramana of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church while the other is at Poolatheen Aramana of Malankara Marthoma Syrian Church.
context_section_description: Kollam/Quilon Syrian copper plates, also known as Kollam Tarisappalli copper plates, or Kottayam inscription of Sthanu Ravi, or Tabula Quilonensis record a royal grant issued by the chieftain of Kollam (Ayyan Adikal) to a Syrian Christian merchant magnate (Mar Sapir Iso) in Kerala. The royal charter is engraved in old Malayalam in Vattezhuthu (with some Grantha characters) on six copper plates. The document is one of the important historical inscriptions of Kerala, the date of which has been accurately determined.
  The charter is dated to the 5th regnal year of the Chera/Perumal ruler Sthanu Ravi "Kulasekhara" (i. e., 849 AD). The sixth plate contains a number of signatures of the witnesses to the grant in Arabic (Kufic script), Middle Persian (cursive Pahlavi script) and Judeo-Persian (standard square Hebrew script). Until recently (2013) it was believed that six plates formed two separate grants (dated c. 849 and c. 883 AD) issued by Kerala rulers to the Syrian Christian merchants. 
  One part (4 plates) of the copper plates is kept at the Devalokam Aramana of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church while the other (2 small plates) is at Poolatheen Aramana (Thiruvalla) of Malankara Marthoma Syrian Church.
caption: Quilon Syrian copper plates (849 AD) (six plates)
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