Kutisvara

Middle tower of Kutisvara

Kutisvara is a ruined temple near Banteay Kdei and Srah Srang in Siem Reap ( Cambodia ) and part of the Angkor UNESCO World Heritage Site .

history

It remains unclear whether Kutisvara can be traced back to the founder of the Khmer Empire , King Jayavarman II , or Rajendravarman II , who ruled more than a hundred years later. An inscription on a stele in Sdok Kok Thom in eastern Thailand connects Jayavarman II with Kutisvara. An inscription found in Banteay Kdei names Rajendravarman II as the builder.

Due to its somewhat remote location and small size, Kutisvara was only discovered in 1930, freed of vegetation and soil by the French archaeologists Henri Marchal and Henri Parmentier, who worked for the École française d'Extrême-Orient , in the same year and is now a little known Temple ruins in Angkor.

architecture

Kutisvara is 200 m north of Banteay Kdei in the middle of rice fields on a small pile of earth hidden between trees. The temple was dedicated to Shiva . The central tower is in Preah Ko , the other two in Pre Rup style. The three towers, which have since collapsed and are only preserved as ruins, stand in north-south direction on a flat hill, their sandstone doors face east. A pediment lying on the ground shows a relief representation of the four-headed god Brahma . Kutisvara was probably surrounded by a moat earlier. The middle tower is in the best shape of the three.

Web links

Angkor Temple Guide: Kutisvara. with overview map and photos. In: The publisher's website with tourist information. Canby Publications, Phnom Penh , accessed March 4, 2012 .

Commons : Kutisvara - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Dawn F. Rooney: Angkor . Cambodia's wondrous Khmer Temples. 6th edition. Odyssey Books & Guides, Hong Kong 2011, ISBN 978-962-217-802-1 , pp. 290 .
^ Maurice Glaize: Les Monuments du groupe d'Angkor . 4th edition. Adrien-Maisonneuve, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7200-1091-X , p. 148 (French, 285 p., Translation by Nils Tremmel into English [PDF; 8.0 MB ; accessed on August 11, 2011] First edition: Portail, Saigon 1944).
^ Marilia Albanese: Angkor . National Geographic Art Guide. Ed .: National Geographic Society . G + J / RBA GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-937606-77-4 , p. 268 (Italian: I tesori di Angkor . Translated by Wolfgang Hensel).

13.434034 103.899773Coordinates: 13 ° 26 ′ 2.5 ″ N , 103 ° 53 ′ 59.2 ″ E

[A290-1] A ^b Dawn F. Rooney: Angkor . Cambodia's wondrous Khmer Temples. 6th edition. Odyssey Books & Guides, Hong Kong 2011, ISBN 978-962-217-802-1 , pp. 290 .

[MG148-2] Maurice Glaize: Les Monuments du groupe d'Angkor . 4th edition. Adrien-Maisonneuve, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7200-1091-X , p. 148 (French, 285 p., Translation by Nils Tremmel into English [PDF; 8.0 MB ; accessed on August 11, 2011] First edition: Portail, Saigon 1944).

[3] Marilia Albanese: Angkor . National Geographic Art Guide. Ed .: National Geographic Society . G + J / RBA GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-937606-77-4 , p. 268 (Italian: I tesori di Angkor . Translated by Wolfgang Hensel).