"The ox-hump mountain"
Date : late 9th - early 10th century
King : Yasovarman I (posthumous name: Paramasivaloka)
Cult: Brahmanic
Clearing: partial clearing by Glaize in 1939
In this deliberate control of the summits, with every one of the issues inborn in conveying and gathering the huge amounts of stone which must be pulled by hand up their precarious sides, this trend-setter lord, in committing his money to the faction of Devaraja or the regal linga, put the greater part of his subjects - both urban and country - under the insurance of the Brahmanic Trinity, or "Trimurti", of Shiva, Vishnou and Brahma. In the architectonic history of the Khmer, it is a set of three normal for a period of extraordinary solidarity.
The rising of Phnom Bok ought not be embraced aside from by solid walkers who are steadfast by the move, in full daylight, up the uncovered slope - one needs to begin at a young hour in the morning with an aide who knows the way well. Eight kilometers of sandy street - the same to Banteay Samre which, separating from the fabulous circuit between Pre Rup and the Mebon at 14 kilometers from Siem Reap, swings toward the east, goes through the town of Pradak and crosses the eastern dam of the baray - permits one to obtain entrance via auto, if the little scaffold clearing the Stung Roluos is in condition, to the street's intersection that leads left toward the south-eastern base of the slope. A way from here, at initially shaded and afterward climbing the fruitless, rough southern incline, drives one to the top - bit by bit uncovering boundless skylines banished just toward the north by the long line of the Phnom Kulen. The scene's excellence compensates the exertion.
The sanctuary of Phnom Bok, the sibling to Phnom Krom, is likewise undated since no engraving has been found. By the by, their disparities are minimal to the point that they have without a doubt been brought about by the same draftsman, fabricated to a typical arrangement and etched by the same specialists. They are, with a distinction of a couple of years, contemporaneous with Bakheng - whose themes are indistinguishable.
The different structures are comparative in course of action to Phnom Krom yet with the distinction that here the three asylum towers approach in size. They were found, after clearing, seriously demolished and without their upper levels, in spite of the fact that the evacuation of the fallen brick work - finished toward the east and just began toward the west - uncovered the wall painting enhancement to be phenomenal in craftsmanship and far superior safeguarded than at Phnom Krom, the stones here not having endured the components.
The frontons are all for all intents and purposes comparative, and a few have been remade on the ground. Despite the fact that harmed, they obviously show tympanums with the shallow adornment that describes the craft of Yasovarman. Almost square in extent and somewhat confounding in creation - yet intensely surrounded by the gigantic makaras that complete the curve's line - they have a focal cheek decorated with a figure flanked by substantial flaring volutes, improved with puppets and bordered with a differing number of little heads of divinities.
In spite of the fact that the wall painting enrichments on the towers toward the north and south stayed unfinished, all over the place one discovers components like those at Bakheng and Phnom Krom, however with slight varieties in point of interest - the devatas' countenances arrive full advances and the corners' confining is more tightened - the many-sided quality of the lintels, which are a bit powerless and fairly hackneyed in piece, appears differently in relation to the exquisite straightforwardness of the octagonal four-united colonnettes. The two external block annexe structures have disintegrated, while the two others - in sandstone - are preferred protected over those at Phnom Krom. Just the laterite's bases exhibitions remain, yet the encasing divider is in place.
Aside from the tower miniatures and the antefixes so run of the mill of landmarks of this period, unearthing has quite found; - in the north tower, a broken wide necked platform with a linga, of a sort for the most part delegated pre-angkorian, - at the focal's foot asylum, some significant pieces of a fine statue of Vishnou in a confident position that has all the earmarks of being later than the landmark, - three leaders of the divine forces of the "Trimurti", evacuated by Delaporte in 1873 and now in the Musée Guimet in Paris, - and the substantial roundabout platform that conveyed the statue of Brahma in the southern tower, comparable to the one at Phnom Krom.
The sanctuary endures, at the end of the day, from the expansion, just in front, of a present day pagoda. Sixty meters east are the remaining parts of a profound rectangular pit framed in block, measuring twelve meters by eight, with a stairway to its eastern side. It must have beforehand served as a water tank. At 150 meters west, a high laterite stage shapes a square of twelve meters every side and conveys a gigantic solid sandstone linga, of 4 meters in tallness and 1m.20 in breadth, now toppled and broken. The exertion that more likely than not been obliged to transport this remarkable piece - the heaviness of which needs to surpass 10 tons - resists conviction
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