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CANDI GentOng

Candi Gentong ditemukan tidak jauh dari Candi Candi Gentong was found not far from
Brahu. Menurut pelaporan R.D.M. Verbeek (1889) pada Candi Brahu. R. D. M. Verbeek (1889) wrote
saat itu bangunan Candi Gentong masih ada, bahkan in his report that Candi Gentong structure was
H. Maclaine Pont (1923) menyebutkan bahwa Candi existing at the time, even H. Maclaine Pont (1923)
Gentong dengan dua candi lainnya berderet dari arah mentioned Candi Gentong and two other temples
barat ke timur. set along west-east axis.

Usaha pelestarian candi ini telah dilakukan sejak Preservation efforts of this temple
tahun 1995 hingga 2001, yang telah menampakkan conducted from 1995 to 2001, restored the
kembali struktur Candi Gentong I dan Candi Gentong structures of Candi Gentong I and Candi Gentong

II. Candi Gentog I terdiri atas tiga struktur bersusun. II. Candi Gentong I is a three tiered structure. The
Di bagian tengah struktur I yang berdenah bujur First structure was built on a square-base plan
sangkar terdapat sejumlah VWXSLND tanah liat. Candi and there are a number of stupika clays in the
Gentong I ditanggali berdasarkan analisis karbon center of it. Carbon-14 (C14) dating established
(C14) menujukkan angka tahun 1470 ±100 A.D. Candi that Candi Gentong I dated from 1470 ± 100 AD.
Gentong II berdenah bujur sangkar, terletak di sebelah Candi Gentong II, built on a square-base plan,
utara Candi Gentong I. Hasil sementara dari penelitian is located north of Candi Gentong I. Interim
di Candi Gentong menyimpulkan bahwa Candi results of study on Candi Gentong concluded that
Gentong merupakan banguan suci agama Buddha yang the temple is a Buddhist shrine with stupa plan
memperlihatkan sistem keruangan yang menggambarkan IROORZLQJ WKH PD۬ڲDOD PRGHO
PD۬ڲDOD stupa.

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