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Óc Eo

Archaeological site in the Mekong Delta, at the foot of Mount Ba Thê, that was a major port of the Funan polity in the early centuries CE. Excavations since the 1940s have found canals, brick temple foundations, workshops for metal, glass and pottery, and trade goods from India and the Roman world.

Dated events and their evidence

• 100 CE mainstream
  radiocarbon dates show major occupation beginning (1st century CE) source
• 150 CE mainstream
  gold medallions from the reign of Roman emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161), later found at the site source
• 150 CE speculative
  possibly the port Ptolemy's Geography calls Cattigara source
• 450 CE mainstream
  peak prosperity: canals, temples and settlements built (4th-6th c. CE) source
• 750 CE disputed
  last habitation (8th-c. Islamic pottery); abandoned, perhaps after a marine incursion source

Where

10.2329° N, 105.1630° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh5517
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93c_Eo

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