RAFAEL BARAGAÑO

11th century Jayavarman V Suryavarman I Hindu (Shiva). An imposing five tier temple mountain built predominantly in sandstone and surrounded by a moat. Perhaps central to the next capital. The clear constructional intention is all the more visible since the decoration was never completed. Inscriptions on door frames of the eastern gopuras relate to dedications…

879 AD Indravarman I Hindu (Shiva). The funerary temple of Jayavarman II and his predecessors. The foundation stele (an inscribed monolith) refers to the cult of the god king, and to the foundation date of three statues of Shiva and Devi in 879 AD. The other face of the inscription dates from 893 AD during…

End of 12the century Jayavarman VII Buddhist. A small temple in the Bayon style to the north of Prah Khan. Two enclosures, the outer of which is surrounded by a moat.

Beginning of 11th century Jayavarman V Suryavarman I. Inscriptions within the southern Kleang are similar to the oaths of functionaries engraved on one of the door jambs of the east gopura of the royal palace enclosure. “Hurrah” for Japan developer of this outstanding project Children Monks and their Monk teacher Yes, monastic life starts at…

End of 12th century Jayavarman VII. A large basin (the royal bath), 700 meters by 300, set on the axis of Banteay Kdei and bordered by stone steps. Originally excavated during the mid 10th century, to its west is an elegant terrace, and nearly at its center a small island on which there are some…

1191 AD Jayavarman VII Buddhist. A royal city forming rectangle of 700 by 800 meters surrounded by a moat and similar to Ta Prohm, but with only four enclosures. Opens to the east to a baray (at the center of which is Neak Pean) via a terrace used originally as a boat landing. The large…

End of 9th century Yasovarman I. Hindu Perhaps the second of three temples built by Yasovarman I on the hills dominating the Angkor plain – the others being on Phnom Bakhengand, Phnom Bok. Badly deteriorated. Three sandstone sanctuaries aligned north-south are dedicated to the Brahmanic trinity – Shiva between Vishnu (north) and Brahma (south).

10th century Hindu (Shiva). Three small brick towers aligned north south on a common laterite base.

961 AD Rajendravarman II Hindu (Shiva). On the same north south axis as the Eastern Mebon which it follows by only 9 years. Similar in style and composition, though much grander. Probably central to the second capital which developed following its return from Koh Ker, to where it moved between 921 and 944. It is…

End of 9th century Yasovarman I Hindu (Shiva). At the center of the first capital of Angkor which formed a square of about 4 km surrounded by a moat of which the south west quarter is still visible. A ‘natural mound’ five tiered pyramid temple, the bulk of which is hewn from the bed-rock and…