The 5m.50 square haven chamber contains a substantial pilastered
platform of 2m.75 that most likely conveyed a linga. Underneath it, a well has at its
base a cleared underground load at a profundity of 12m.25 that is level with
the encompassing plain. This chamber framed a square of 2m.70 every side,
was vaulted in block and probably contained some hallowed store. It was
the presence of this well in this way drove G. Trouvé to attempt comparative
research at the Bayon and at Angkor Wat, thus to the disclosure of the
establishment store of this last mentioned and the Great Buddha - the watchman of the
kingdom's predetermination - of the previous.
The ornamentation of Ak Yom gives some uncommon confirmation of the
primitive workmanship - the lintels, regularly re-utilized, are thin in tallness and oversimplified in
piece. In a few spots they consolidate emblems and pendants,
while in others, branches and terminal looks with an attack of foliage. The
colonnettes have been made tube shaped with a generally charged
ornamentation of globules and leaves on the rings. The "hipped" devatas
etched in the brickwork are still obvious on the south-east haven, where
there is additionally a momentous false entryway on the east side. On the boards, little
lions in roundabout emblems are determined to a band of leaves in an intersection theme.
