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Ratu Boko

Hilltop archaeological complex on a plateau about 3 km south of Prambanan, with stone gateways, terraces, bathing pools, walled enclosures and rock-cut caves. An inscription dated 792 records a Buddhist monastery, the Abhayagiri Vihara, founded on this hill under Rakai Panangkaran. In the 9th century the site was apparently turned into a fortified residence, which is why it is often called a palace.

Dated events and their evidence

• 792 CE mainstream
  Abhayagiri Vihara inscription records a Buddhist monastery on the hill under Rakai Panangkaran source
• 856 CE disputed
  mid-9th c.: reused as the fortified seat of the Hindu lord Rakai Walaing Pu Kumbhayoni (c. 856) source
• 1790 CE mainstream
  Dutch visitor Van Boeckholtz first reports ruins on Ratu Boko hill source
• 1938 CE mainstream
  van Romondt begins excavation and restoration, drawing reconstructions of the main gates source
• 1952 CE mainstream
  Indonesian government resumes restoration of the complex source

Where

7.7700° S, 110.4889° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.30883/jba.v15i3.684
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratu_Boko
• https://doi.org/10.30883/jba.v23i1.867
• https://visitingjogja.jogjaprov.go.id/en/?p=14469

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