%0 Journal Article
%T The Dikp¨¡las of ancient Java revisited: A new identification for the 24 directional deities on the  iva temple of the Loro Jonggrang complex
%A Andrea Acri
%A Roy Jordaan
%J Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
%D 2012
%I Brill
%X Ca  i  iva, sacred centre of the famous ninth-century Loro Jonggrang temple complex at Prambanan, Central Java, is decorated with numerous iconic and narrative reliefs. Starting from the eastern staircase and traversing the perambulatory in a clockwise direction, we find the narrative reliefs of the R¨¡m¨¡ya a on the balustrade wall on our left, and the iconic reliefs of twenty-four seated male deities, each flanked by several attendants ¨C collectively referred to in the accompanying iconographic plan as ¡®Lokap¨¡las with attendants¡¯¨C on our right, that is, on the temple body proper. The prime objective of the present inquiry is propose a new identification of this set of twenty-four deities forming  iva¡¯s entourage, which remains an unresolved issue in the art history of Central Java. Our findings will have implications for our understanding of the iconographical master plan of Loro Jonggrang, and, in a wider sense, of certain developments in Indo-Javanese and Balinese iconography.
%K iva temple
%K Loro Jonggrang complex
%K Indo-Javanese iconography
%K Balinese iconography
%K Art history of Central Java
%U http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/btlv/article/view/8530