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THE TOMB INSCRIPTION AND TOMB FIGURE OF KAPITAN CINA LIEM KHIK SING’S TOMB IN LASEM
Suwanti Suwanti, Hermina Sutami

Last modified: 2017-07-31

Abstract


When Nusantara was under the Dutch colonial government, Kapitan Cina was one of its administrative leader position for Chinese-Indonesian’s community. Lasem was   sub-district area in central of Java. At that time, Lasem had a significant number of Chinese-Indonesian inhabitans, and became an important district for economical life. Because most of the inhabitants were Chinese, we can find many Chinese artefacts  there. One of them was  Kapitan Liem Khik Sing’s tomb. It was located in Desa Tulis, Lasem, and the Kapitan’s tomb was inside the Liem family’s cemetery complex. This field research was about Kapitan Liem Khik Sing’s tomb inscription and figures.  The aim of this research was to make an interpretation about the Han characters written in the inscription and to make an interpretation about the tomb’s figures by using Peirce’s semiotics theory. The inscription of the tomb will be syntactically analysed, The result of the research will be presented descriptive-qualitatively. It will tell us the meaning of the Han characters written  in the inscription, and information about it; and also the meaning of several tomb figures on the Kapitan’s tomb. This research will be presented descriptive-qualitatively. I hope this result can give contribution to Indonesia epigraphical artefacts and culture.

Keywords: tomb inscription, tomb figure, Chinese-Indonesian, Kapitan Cina, Lasem