TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Ancient Hindu temple unearthed in Prambanan
Digging deep
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
Digging deep: A team from the Cultural Heritage Preserve Agency (BPCB) Yogyakarta, assisted by 10 archaeology students from Gadjah Mada University at the site of the Tinjon Temple. The 10-day excavation in Sambirejo village, Prambanan, Yogyakarta, ends on Wednesday. The excavation will be continued in October. (JP/Bambang Muryanto) (BPCB) Yogyakarta, assisted by 10 archaeology students from Gadjah Mada University at the site of the Tinjon Temple. The 10-day excavation in Sambirejo village, Prambanan, Yogyakarta, ends on Wednesday. The excavation will be continued in October. (JP/Bambang Muryanto)
Digging deep. A team from the Cultural Heritage Preserve Agency (BPCB) Yogyakarta, assisted by 10 archaeology students from Gadjah Mada University at the site of the Tinjon Temple. The 10-day excavation in Sambirejo village, Prambanan, Yogyakarta, ends on Wednesday. The excavation will be continued in October. (JP/Bambang Muryanto)
An excavation team from the Cultural Heritage Preserve Agency (BPCB) Yogyakarta said they found a structure believed to be Tinjon Temple, a 9th century Hindu temple, in Sambirejo village, Prambanan, Yogyakarta.
'From the excavation, we know that Tinjon Temple has a quadrangle shape,' Wahyu Astuti of the BPCB Yogyakarta told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday afternoon.
She said the team could be sure of the shape of the Tinjon Temple after excavating a 30 x 30 meters-wide of land area. Assisted by 10 archaeology students from Gadjah Mada University, the team found piles of andesite rocks sized 20 x 15 centimeters each on average.
Local residents of Sambirejo village have long known the presence of an archaeological structure they later named Tinjon Temple.
The temple is located around one kilometer in the western part of Ijo Temple and around two kilometers in the south of Ratu Boko Temple.
'But the main structure of the temple has yet to be found,' said Wahyu.
She said it was likely that the main structure of the temple was in the center of the complex and still buried under the ground. But it was also possible that Tinjon Temple only had a fence surrounding the complex and did not have a main structure, like Batur Temple. (asw/ebf)
