Bat Chum
| Bat Chum | |
|---|---|
Rajendravarman | |
| Completed | Mid 10th century AD |
| Temple(s) | 3 towers |
| Inscriptions | 3 (1 in each 3 towers) |
Bat Chum (
Rajendravarman,[1] at the middle of the 10th century. It is about 400 meters (1,300 ft) south of Srah Srang, at Angkor, Cambodia
.
It consists of three inline brick towers (in poor conditions at present), standing on the same platform, surrounded by an enclosure and a moat, with a single
gopura
to the east.
On the doorjambs there are
temple-mountain of Pre Rup.[2] The latter was dedicated in 960 AD, shortly before death of the architect. There were houses and a Buddhist monastery near the temple, but these wooden structures have been gone for a long time.[3]
During the excavations in 1952, in the northern and central towers, flagstones showing a
George Coedès was able to reconstitute and with extreme difficulty link to the Buddhist divinities mentioned on doorjambs.[4]
In every tower there is a different inscription signed by three different persons. The last verse of each of the three refers to the elephants as "dyke breakers".[5]
Gallery
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The temple -
Left tower -
Middle tower -
Right tower -
Door to the middle tower -
Stone lions
Footnotes
- ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.
- ^ Freeman and Jacques, 2006, p.158
- ^ Ancient Angkor guide book, by Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques, published in 2003.
- ^ Dumarçay et al., 2001, pp.18-19
- ^ Freeman and Jacques, 2006, p.155
References
- Dumarçay, Jacques; Royère, Pascal; Smithies, Michael; Kähler, Hans; Arps, Ben; Spuler, Bertold; Altenmüller, Hartwig (2001). Cambodian Architecture, Eight to Thirteenth Century. Brill. ISBN 90-04-11346-0.
- Freeman, Michael; Jacques, Claude (2006). Ancient Angkor. River Books. ISBN 974-8225-27-5.
13°25′29.38″N 103°54′27.31″E / 13.4248278°N 103.9075861°E
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