Wednesday, July 6, 2016


The style is unmistakably that of the Baphuon, with nagas confining the frontons with their adjusted structure, the natural beautification swarmed with little creatures on the tympanums, the pilasters with their vertical "herringbone" line, and the vertical groups of the corner docks, fancy in a few spots with foliated parchments and in others with little creatures set in boards. The best saved frontons are those toward the north side (eastern tower), which are absolutely elaborate with a theme of superimposed vertical groups and huge parchments. The eastern lintel of the focal tower, eastern bank, in which three figures get a handle on the branch at its inside and quarters, likewise indicates striking smoothness. The door jambs are built with a half-miter, and a few parts of colonnettes demonstrate that they were of a sort seldom utilized, with kind of vertical channels. The towers were connected to each other by a sandstone fenced in area divider penetrated with various little openings rising just to the shaped and enlivened cornice - which had an adapting inquisitively treated in impersonation of an exhibition vault, with an edging band of lotus petals. About the entire of this divider has fallen, and its ruin would give off an impression of being brought about fundamentally by the sad mix - incessant in the eleventh century - of stone also, multiplied wooden pillars.