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Claim (verbatim)
Khmer inscription production is famously uneven across reigns, usually explained by royal piety or building programs. Join the epigraphic time-series instead to a truth every property lawyer knows: when title is insecure, everyone rushes to re-register. The conjecture is that bursts of inscriptions early in contested reigns are mass re-confirmations of property — landholders converting doubtful rights into stone under a new king — so the inscription count is a seismograph of property insecurity, and each spike is the durable residue of a structurally necessary, much larger wave of perishable re-issued deeds and confirmations. The mechanism is incentive: engraving is expensive, and people pay for permanence exactly when they fear challenge. If it holds, Angkorian political history becomes readable as a title-insurance market, and the churn of the lost deed system acquires a countable stone shadow.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
In the dated corpus, inscription production during the first decade after contested or irregular successions will exceed the same reign's subsequent per-decade average by at least 50%, in a majority of identifiable contested successions, and the excess will be concentrated in transactional and confirmatory content rather than new foundations. Primary clause: the at-least-50% first-decade excess in a majority of contested successions; the verdict follows it.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
The Cœdès / DHARMA Khmer inscription inventory (K-numbers — the standard Khmer epigraphic corpus): reign-aligned production and content-type time-series.
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
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Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
Lustig's inscription-data work documents cycles of royal and non-royal epigraphic production tied to shifting power relations, anticipating production-as-political-seismograph; but the property-insecurity operationalization — first-decade post-contested-succession excess concentrated in confirmatory content — is un-run.
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