Wat Son Khao
Wat Son Khao ( Thai วัด ซ่อน ข้าว , German: "Temple of the rice storage") is the name of the ruin of a former Buddhist temple complex ( Wat ) in the center of the historic old town of Sukhothai in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Sukhothai Historical Park in Thailand .
location
Wat Son Khao is located within the wall belt of the old town of Sukhothai just under 100 meters southeast of the northern city gate and 120 meters north of Wat Sorasak . The relatively large land area is bounded on the north of the city walls, to the west of the north towards Si Satchanalai road leading in 1113 that the route of the ancient parts of its course, the two royal cities with each other and to the south with Kamphaeng Phet joined " Thanon Phra Ruang “( Thai ถนน พระร่วง , English Phra Ruang Road ) corresponds.
Research history, naming, dating
Wat Son Khao was archaeologically excavated and restored by the Fine Arts Department in the years 1965–1966 and again in the mid-1980s . During these investigations, numerous out were sound burned votive tablets recovered that now in the Ramkhamhaeng National Museum are located. The research provided evidence that Wat Son Khao and the neighboring temple Wat Sorasak may originally have belonged to the same temple complex. The name of the wat is not attested by ancient inscriptions, it was rather assigned by the local population. Wat Son Khao was probably built in the late Sukhothai period , in the first quarter of the 15th century.
Findings
The central area of the temple complex is surrounded by a rectangular brick wall, 47 mx 75 m long. Inside this square there is a meeting hall ( wihan ), a main chedi and two subordinate chedi. The brick base and a large number of laterite pillars are still preserved from the Wihan . The base can be accessed via a staircase at the eastern end. At its western end is a pedestal that must have previously supported a no longer existing Buddha sculpture. The main chedi is a brick construction on a square base. The rising masonry tapers in steps and finally turns into a rounded shape. The construction indicates that it must have had the shape of a lotus bud .
Outside the brick wall, about 50 meters in a straight line northwest of the main Chedi, there is a Burma influences having Direction Mondop with a standing Buddha statue . The ruins of a building complex about 100 meters as the crow flies east-northeast of the Chedi could also have belonged to Wat Son Khao.
literature
- Dawn F. Rooney : Ancient Sukhothai. Thailand's Cultural Heritage . River Books, Bangkok 2008, ISBN 978-974-9863-42-8 , pp. 102f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dawn F. Rooney : Ancient Sukhothai. Thailand's Cultural Heritage . River Books, Bangkok 2008, ISBN 978-974-9863-42-8 , pp. 6. and 22f.
Coordinates: 17 ° 1 ′ 26.9 ″ N , 99 ° 42 ′ 15.9 ″ E