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Indonesia Tourism - Tomb of Prince Iranata

Prince Iranata Tomb is located in the New Country, Sub Continent Kayong district, Ketapang or about 5 km from the center of Ketapang. Is the eldest son of Prince Panembahan Iranata Kesuma Giri, the first Muslim king in the Tanjungpura. Because of disagreements among office broken palace, Prince Iranata opt out of the circle of power

Together with his family, Prince Iranata Pawan river to arrive in an area now known as New State Sembelengan or village. Here, he built a retreat and live to the end of his life. In this place Iranata Prince's death. Interment Complex Prince Iranata become a magnet for archaeologists because it allegedly keeps a lot of artifacts. There are several research teams, both from outside and within the state, has done research on the complex this interment. One is a team of researchers from Banjarmasin who did research for 12 days in 2007. This team works to find some artifacts such as furniture, ceramic floral relief, and relief sculpture legs attached in the red brick wall.

Initially, the team of researchers from Banjarmasin find the ruins of ancient brick-red and ceramics scattered around the site which is then used as a drilling location. The team then developed digging and found the structure of the building and ensure the entrance of a temple. At the entrance, there are sculptures and relief carvings of flowers.

Besides the temple, a team of researchers is to find the structure of the phallus and the fraction of debris or mortar stone mortar. Linga is a symbol of worship of the ancient Hindu civilization has a large enough size to the top of the fracture. A variety of found objects are spread within a radius large enough, that is 100-200 m².

Tomb of Prince Iranata area is famous artifacts of cultural relics in the form of Hindu temples made of red stone. In addition, this shrine is also a fraction of ceramics from the Ming Dynasty in China, Thailand and the Netherlands in the 18th century, ancient stones and tombs of ancient Islamic architecture. The discovery of the many historical things would be a distinct value for its rich history, especially the artifacts, in the Regency of Ketapang.

In addition to the Tomb of Prince Iranata complex that holds a lot of heritage, communities around the location of interment has also found an ancient tomb complex outside the interment. This headstone was found by a community of about 300 m outside the Tomb of Prince Iranata complex.
In contrast to the gravestone is in the Graveyard Keramat Keramat Seven or Nine, this tie is made of wood. Overview of the gravestone of a symbol of the sun's similar to the Majapahit Kingdom. But the shape is slightly different because some are bad breakout-prone. But can be determined that the ancient cemetery at the bottom of the gravestone is the tomb of a Muslim woman. It can be seen from the relief are very beautiful and filled up a unique look. The visitors who wish to obtain information about key tomb can contact an interpreter living tomb not far from the tomb.

Find a tie (the ancient mausoleum) outside the area interment Prince Iranata the heightened interest to researchers to come to this location. Historical artifacts of the profusion of factors make this site more to get a place as a research site archeologist.
 
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