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Candi Cetho

Candi Cetho is a terraced Hindu-Javanese temple on the western slope of Mount Lawu, built in the last decades of the Majapahit period. Its stepped terraces echo older Indonesian terraced sanctuaries, and a gate inscription dates part of it to 1475. Much of what stands today, including the wooden pavilions and split gates, comes from a disputed rebuilding in 1975-1976.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1451 CE mainstream
  floor relief on terrace VII read as a chronogram for 1373 Saka (1451 CE) source
• 1475 CE mainstream
  gate inscription dated 1397 Saka (1475 CE) source
• 1842 CE mainstream
  first scholarly report by Van der Vlis, together with Candi Sukuh source
• 1928 CE mainstream
  first excavation by the Dutch colonial archaeological service source
• 1975 CE mainstream
  rebuilding in 1975-1976 under Sudjono Humardani, criticised by archaeologists source

Where

7.5955° S, 111.1573° E

Sources

• https://ojs.uhnsugriwa.ac.id/index.php/PJAH/article/view/2578
• https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candi_Ceto

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