{"id":19496,"date":"2022-10-04T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=19496"},"modified":"2022-10-04T11:21:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:51:34","slug":"ancient-ceramics-ready-for-next-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2022\/10\/04\/ancient-ceramics-ready-for-next-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient ceramics ready for next journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A traditional Indonesian cleansing ceremony held recently in Flinders University&#8217;s Southeast Asian Ceramics Archaeology Laboratory (SEACAL) has blessed the team and removed potential obstacles as they embark on the next steps of the ARC Linkage Project \u2018Reuniting cargoes: Underwater Cultural Heritage of the Maritime Silk Route\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A traditional Bugis-Makassar <em>Passili<\/em> ritual was initiated by Dr Martin Polkinghorne and conducted by Flinders alumni Dr Muja Hiduddin and Fatimah Rahman in September, to bless the project team and purify the objects. Guests at the traditional ceremony included two incoming PhD students from Indonesia\u2019s Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19497\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19497 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/DSC_0910-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/DSC_0910-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/DSC_0910-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/DSC_0910-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/DSC_0910.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Martin Polkinghorne and Dr Muja Hiduddin take part in the Passilli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Passilli<\/em> means \u201cto sprinkle water\u201d and the cleansing ritual is accompanied by other significant offerings of sweet cakes, bananas, sticky rice and incense.<\/p>\n<p>Each item has a special significance to the success of the project. For instance, <em>Barongko<\/em> cake, wrapped and steamed in banana leaf, is reserved for special events and can only be prepared by a noble person. <em>Cantik manis<\/em> cake is especially sweet and offers the promise of good tidings. <em>Kue klepon <\/em>cake floats to the surface when made, ensuring that knowledge will also float from the depths for us to see. A bunch of bananas and the sticky-rice provides assurances that the project team will stick together. And incense invites <em>bidadari <\/em>(angels) into the project team&#8217;s presence.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Muja and Fatimah also sang prayers in Islamised Bugis as the ceramics were sprinkled with sacred water. After more than 1000 years, these ceramics are now ready for the next journey of their lives, to be the focus of intensive research at SEACAL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A traditional Indonesian cleansing ceremony held recently in Flinders University&#8217;s Southeast Asian Ceramics Archaeology Laboratory (SEACAL) has blessed the team and removed potential obstacles as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4182,"featured_media":19498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8152],"tags":[27369,46825,46826,46864],"class_list":["post-19496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences","tag-dr-martin-polkinghorne","tag-dr-muja-hiduddin","tag-fatimah-rahman","tag-southeast-asian-ceramics-archaeology-laboratory"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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