Heritage site

Preah Theat Baray

Preah Theat Baray is an Angkorian temple ruin in Baray commune, Srei Santhor.[1] Kitagawa names a Prasat Preah Theat at Baray village.[2]

A low ruin of red-brown brick walls overgrown with shrubs on a square brick-edged platform, with a few fallen sandstone blocks carved with floral patterns, set in flat rice-field lowland under a soft morning sky
Illustration inspired by the brick ruin of Preah Theat Baray

Architecture and tradition

Nhim describes a brick ruin on a square rise and cites Étienne Aymonier's date in the first half of the 10th century.[1] Kitagawa places the remains in the Angkor period without giving a narrower date.[2]

The sandstone decoration includes lintels and pediments. A lintel depicts Vishnu reclining on a Naga.[1] Nhim records a local tradition that links the relief to Stec Kan.[1] Kitagawa records a tradition in Baray village that calls it an image of Kon.[2]

References 2
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Sophia University, Nhim Sotheavin, Factors that Led to the Change of the Khmer Capitals from the 15th to 17th century (undated), pp. 67 to 68
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Southeast Asian Studies, Kitagawa Takako, History of the Water Kings in Srei Santhor (June 2000), pp. 60 to 61
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