offering tray talam 12th14th century indonesia in medieval javanese hindu ritual large metal offering trays were regularly employed for the preparation of ritual utensils and paraphernalia the term used in old javanese is tahas and they are referred to in modern javanese and indonesian as talam both variant terms can be sourced to the tamil word for the same utensil tattam fragmentary bronze trays of this type together with other metal temple utensils have been excavated from a mid 10th century shipwreck in the java sea in the past decade affirming their antiquity the traditions a 2hh0b8j.jpg from África nud ritual cultural View Photo