Tallo Kings Cemetery Complex, Tallo
Kompleks Makam Raja-Raja Tallo (Tallo Kings Cemetery Complex), Jl. Sultan Abdullah Raya, Tallo, Kec. Tallo,
Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia.
There are 78 (even claimed 93) graves in the complex, but only 21 have been identified. The remains of the kings, family members and court important nobility were put to rest after their demised between the 17th to 19th century.
There are essentially three types of grave. The first type basically is collated piles, made by blocking stones resembling a temple. The structure consists of legs, body, and hollowing roof. The second type is a stone tablet, the tomb made as wooden building consists of four rectangular board-shaped stone. While the third type is the domed building, the tomb with hollow building and stood on the rectangular stone with a roof dome. Headstones and tombs of the kings have a variety of ornaments, such as plant motifs, lockets, Arabic and Lontara lettering inscribed on them.
Heretical rituals cult of saints seems widespread at the cemetery complex visitation by those seeking the blessing of the cemeteries and the dead.
Ref.:
visitingmakassar.blogspot.com/2009/03/tomb-of-tallo-kings...
www.idntimes.com/travel/destination/aan-pranata/berziarah...
uun-halimah.blogspot.com/2008/10/makam-raja-raja-tallo-su...
Blessing the World: Ritual and Lay Piety in Medieval Religion
By Derek A. Rivard. CUA Press, 2009, 332 pp.
www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/8/3/34/htm
Tallo Kings Cemetery Complex, Tallo
Kompleks Makam Raja-Raja Tallo (Tallo Kings Cemetery Complex), Jl. Sultan Abdullah Raya, Tallo, Kec. Tallo,
Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia.
There are 78 (even claimed 93) graves in the complex, but only 21 have been identified. The remains of the kings, family members and court important nobility were put to rest after their demised between the 17th to 19th century.
There are essentially three types of grave. The first type basically is collated piles, made by blocking stones resembling a temple. The structure consists of legs, body, and hollowing roof. The second type is a stone tablet, the tomb made as wooden building consists of four rectangular board-shaped stone. While the third type is the domed building, the tomb with hollow building and stood on the rectangular stone with a roof dome. Headstones and tombs of the kings have a variety of ornaments, such as plant motifs, lockets, Arabic and Lontara lettering inscribed on them.
Heretical rituals cult of saints seems widespread at the cemetery complex visitation by those seeking the blessing of the cemeteries and the dead.
Ref.:
visitingmakassar.blogspot.com/2009/03/tomb-of-tallo-kings...
www.idntimes.com/travel/destination/aan-pranata/berziarah...
uun-halimah.blogspot.com/2008/10/makam-raja-raja-tallo-su...
Blessing the World: Ritual and Lay Piety in Medieval Religion
By Derek A. Rivard. CUA Press, 2009, 332 pp.
www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/8/3/34/htm