The Dikpalas of Ancient Java Revisited: A New identification for the 24 Directional Deities on the Sva Temple of the Loro Jonggrang Complex  

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Acri, Andrea ; Jordaan, Roy E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bijdragen Tot de Taal Land En Volkenkunde vol. 168 no. 02/03 (2012), page 274-313.
Topik: Siva temple; Loro Jonggrang complex; Hindu temple; Indo-Javanese Iconography; Balinese Iconography; Art History of Central Java
Fulltext: B10 v168 n2-3 2012 p274,win.pdf (7.94MB)

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Ca??i Siva, sacred centre of the famous ninth-century Loro Jonggrang temple complex at Prambanan, Central Java, is decorated with numerous iconic and narrative reliefs. Starting from the eastern staircase and traversing the perambulatory in a clockwise direction, we find the narrative reliefs of the Ramaya?a on the balustrade wall on our left, and the iconic reliefs of twenty-four seated male deities, each flanked by several attendants – collectively referred to in the accompanying iconographic plan as ‘Lokapalas with attendants’– on our right, that is, on the temple body proper. The prime objective of the present inquiry is propose a new identification of this set of twenty-four deities forming Siva’s entourage, which remains an unresolved issue in the art history of Central Java. Our findings will have implications for our understanding of the iconographical master plan of Loro Jonggrang, and, in a wider sense, of certain developments in Indo-Javanese and Balinese iconography.

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