166 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vor. IX, 
; language are shorter than those in the Arabic lettering and fill. 
the spaces, one on either side, above the two openings of the 
hole. 
The Arabic inscriptions, except for an orthodox Mohame- 
dan invocation at the beginning of each, are in part difficult 
to read; but it appears to ‘be clear from those parts of 
is that of one Sheikh Ahmad! who died in A.H. 872 (A.D. 
1467/8) in the time of Sultan Mansur Shah of Malacca? (A.D. 
1459-A.D.- 1475). Malacca was taken by the Portuguese 
under Albuquerque in A.D. r5rz, in the reign of Sultan 
Mahmud Shah, and between Sultan Mansur Shah and Sultan 
Mahmud Shah came Alaedin Riayat Shah I. 
I have already referred to the inner part of the tomb. 
This as will be seen on referring to the plan consists of an 
outer and an inner‘enclosure, both of them rectangular, and 
both constructed of very large and heavy blocks of laterite. 
The inner chamber is the grave proper, and at its foot there 
At the head of the grave there is a laterite block (No. 3) 
the top of which has been rounded to resemble the Batu Acheh 
capstone referred to above. This stone also bears a circle on 
its outer, and another on its inner, surface, these correspond- 
ing in position to those on the capstone. Neither of them now 
a renin. Sunn inirnmrcenncermnrn serge a sha ea en ie 
1 ** Makam Sheikh Ahmad” (the tomb of Sheikh Ahmad). 
2 Pada zaman Sultan Shah Mansur” (in the time of Sultan Mansur 
Shah). My thanks are due to Mr. J. P. Moquette of the Batavian Society’s 
Museum for making out a large part. 
’R O. Wi i 
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4 Presumably this is an inscribed stone to which Wilkinson refers in his 
Malay History. He says, ‘‘ Near this pillar (i.e. the perforated stone) is 
re : tame 
can imly seen,’’ but as far as I have been able to make out the inscrip- 
tion seems to be undoubtedly in the Arabic character. 
