01 Phimai
The temple of Phimai is a Khmer temple is dated (in its form known to...
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02 Phimai s view out
An inscription at Phnom Wan, dated 1082, mentions Jayavaram VI (r....
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03 Phimai s gopura
After the Naga bridge comes the Southern "gopura", and entrance...
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04 Phimai s encl ii
After entering through the outer gopura and the outer enclosure wall, the...
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05 Phimai sanctuary
A view from the inner enclosure wall (it really is a gallery, not a...
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06 Phimai sanctuary fr ne
View of the sanctuary from North East. There are many beautifully...
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07 Phimai sanctuary fr e
In connection with the outer wall, Jayavaraman VII build the "Victory...
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008 Phimai phlab phla
The Phlab Phla in the foregound is a squre base of 8.15m to the East of the...
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09 Phimai s banalai
This is one of two "banalai," libraries or scripture depositories, in...
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10 Phimai ne reservoir
To the North East and North West, in the outer enclosure area, are two water...
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11 Phimai ne reservoir
This is the basin to the North East with a view of the prasat behing...
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12 phimai w gopura ii
This is the outer gopura to the West. Note the remains of the lintel.
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13 phimai w gopura
This carving (of a risi? (ascetic)) is at the outer gopura to the...
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14 Phimai hospital chapel
South of the town and past the Victory gate, following the former road...
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15 Phimai lintel
This lintel from the temple of Phimai is now housed in the Phimai National...
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16 Phimai dvarapala
This figure of a "dvarapala" (a door guardian) is also from Phimai.
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17 Phimai devata
This "devata" (a female 'goddess') is also in the museum.
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18 phimai tops
These "crowns" or top parts from temple towers reveal the...
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19 phimai baray w museum
This is the museum, behind an old baray (water pool). I believe I had it for...
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01 prung access e
This is Phnom Rung (pron. P'nom Roong). This causeway, flanked by...
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02 Prung panorama
Phnom Rung is on the top of a hill overlooking the flat Khorat...
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03 Prung nagabridge
This is the head of a Naga, its tail functions as the ballustrade of this...
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04 Prung stairs terraces
The stairs are steeper than they appear from the distance.
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05 Prung e gopura nagabridge
Atop the stairs are four basins; five steps lead up to another naga platform...
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06 PRung E Gopura fr Platform w Ponds
Panorama Shot
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07 PRung Mandapa
In the temple enclosure, yet another elevated naga platform connects...
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008 PRung Lintel Mandapa E
View of the Mandapa from the East, the main entrance, so to speak. Lintel:...
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10 PRung PRang fr NW
This is the prasat from the West.
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11 PRung PRang Tower fr N
Here are details of the cascading carvings or pediments. Binoculars...
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12 PRung Prang Tower N Top Peds
Details from the Northern side of the tower. At the very top, there are risi...
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13 PRung Prang N Pediment
Below all this, a scene from the Ramayana (which one, I cannot tell)...
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14 PRung Antarala N Pediment
This is the pediment above the Northern entrance to the antarala, the...
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15 PRung Pipe from Sanctuary
This "somasutra" (a channel for draining lustral water) runs from the...
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16 PRung PRang fr SE
A view of the prasat from South East.
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17 PRung Prang SE Detail
Details of the base carvings on the Eastern side of the South entrace to the...
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18 PRung Mandapa Antarala fr S
The photos have effectively led around the temple. This view is from...
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19 PRung S Gopura
This gopura, set into the enclosure gallery and leading to the South, is much...
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20 PRung Lintel fr Antarala to Prang
This lintel over the door leading from the mandapa to the antarala shows...
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21 PRung Nandi in Antarala fr N
In the antarala, a statue of Nandi, Shiva's bull.
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22 PRung View W fr Sanctuary
This view goes from the prasat through the Eastern gopura over the Khorat...
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23 PRung View W
This is the view to the West from Phnom Rung (the eponymous hill, that...
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25 PRung View W Dusk
The view from the hill at dusk.
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27 Kuti Rishi fr E
Down the hill, to the east, was this hospital chapel, which was in good...
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28 Kuti Rishi Prang fr N
All that's left is this chapel, a single tower sanctuary with a...
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29 Kuti Rishi fr NE
This small baray was to the North East of the chapel.
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01 MeuangTam Plan
After pressing on with my motorcycle for another 1/2 hour, I arrived...
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02 MeuangTam
This pediment shows Indra on his three-headed elephant Airvata. It...
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03 MeuangTam Pediment
This pediment, now located in the National Museum in Phimai, also...
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04 MeuangTam
The lintel is put up at the entrance area of the temple.
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05 MeuangTam
Another lintel, from the East side of the main prasat, which is now in the...
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06 MEaungTam E Gopura II
Eastern gopura of the outer enclosure. The main entrance to the temple...
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07 MeuangTam E Gopura II fr Enclosure II
This shows the Eastern gopura of the outer enclosure from the gallery of the...
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08 MeuangTam Encl II V SE fr E
The L-shaped basin of the outer disclosure, in the South-East corner. It is...
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09 MeuangTam E Gopura II fr Basin
Here is the view from that lovely shade! There are little...
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10 MeuangTam Interior Lintel E Gopura II S Door
Looking back at the lintel and pediment of the outer Eastern gopura.
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11 MeuangTam V W fr E Gopura II
Turning 180 degrees, the view of basin and inner temple enclosure from the...
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12 MeuangTam Inner Enclosure
The inner enclosure has, in the East, two "library" buildings,...
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13 MeuangTam View E Library Gopura
Here is a view of the inner Easern Gopura and the Southern library building,...
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14 MeuangTam 5 Prasats
So do brick towers on a platform, as here. It reminded me of Lolei and...
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15 MeuangTam Lintel Prasat
A nice lintel, but not close in workmanship and detail to the work in...
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16 MeuangTam Lintel Prasat
I apologize that this is not sharp, but this Shiva with Uma should be...
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17 MeuangTam PRasats fr W
This is a few of the brick prasats from West; the Western part of the inner...
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18 MeuangTam NW Basin
This shows the naga-balustrade. The naga rears its head at the corner, the...
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19 MeuangTam Naga at NW Basin
Smae direction, different angle. The naga is not supposed to be scary;...
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20 MeuangTam fr NW Basin
The basin; the gallery of the inner enclosure; the brick prasats.
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21 MeuangTamN Gopura II View Inside
And again and again finely carbed lintels and pediments, like here at the...
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01 Ta Muen EndofRoad
As we approached Ta Muen, we were passed by a civilian on the back of a...
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03 Ta Muen EndofClearing
.. the curtain of the jungle. A post with obligatory sand sacks,...
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04 Ta Muen JunglePath
Is this the border crossing into Cambodia? I am not sure what the...
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05 Ta Muen Thom Stairs
Turning around from the jungle path, this would have been the approach to the...
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06 Ta Muen Thom
This shows the Southern wall, East of the stairs.
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07 Ta Muen Thom fr S
This is Ta Muen Thom in its clearing. The Khmer Rouge destroyed much...
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08 Ta Muen Thom fr S
Another view from the South, showing the entrance to the mandapa in...
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09 Ta Muen Thom fr NW
A view of the sanctuary from the North West, showing the destruction,...
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10 Ta Muen Thom Shrine
Another view of the sandstone sanctuary, from the Southwest.
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11 Ta Muen Thom Sanctuary
The prasat, which is now in use as a buddhist shrine. Little is left of the...
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12 Ta Muen Thom Sanctuary
Details of the destruction and the things left, at the prasat.
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13 Ta Muen Thom V fr Sanctuary
This is the natural linga in the foreground, the remainder of a nandi...
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14 Ta Muen Thom Gallery N
THis is the Northern gallery, and in the background is the Eastern one of two...
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14 Ta Muen Thom Sanctuary
The rock on which the prasat is built, and a somasutra, which skirts...
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15 Ta Muen Thom Rocks E
The rock has many round impressions and other markings, presumably for ritual...
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16 Ta Muen Thom
What's left of a dvarapala and a devata on the East side of the prasat.
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18 Ta Muen Thom
This laterite building is to the South West of the shrine.
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19 Ta Muen Thom
This is a view of the temple precinct from the North, where several...
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20 Ta Muen Thom Overgrown Pediment
This pediment seemed largely stripped of finer ornaments.
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21 Ta Muen Thom fr N
A small baray to the North of the temple, with the gallery in the back.
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22 Ta Muen Thom fr N
A view of the Northern gopura. The galleries reminded me of the "Khleang...
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23 Ta Muen Thom fr N
The Northern gopura again, with the Northwest tower. The overall plan...
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24 Ta Muen Tot
A little north from the sanctuary was this hospital chapel, the third...
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25 Ta Muen Tot
This elevated cruciform causeway of laterite led to the only gopura of the...
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26 Ta Muen Tot
The enclosure and gopura are made of laterite; the prasat of sandstone.
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27 Ta Muen Tot
The causeway continues from the gopura to the sanctuary; on the North...
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28 Ta Muen Tot
The sanctuary is a single sandstone tower with false doors (except for the...
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29 Ta Muen Dharmasala
Another 300m away was this laterite building on a laterite base, a...
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30 Ta Muen Dharmasala Lintel
However simple the building otherwise may be, it had this fine lintel with a...
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32 Ta Muen Dharmasala
This gives a sense of the dimension of this small chapel.
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34 Ta Muen Dharmasala
A few hundred meters North, the ample farmland started. A herd of cows...
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