Prasat Bakong

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Site common name	Prasat Bakong
Type of artwork	Architecture
Village	-
Province/City	Roluos
State	Siem Reap
Country	Cambodia
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 13.335833 Long : 103.973889

History of production	The shift of the capital ot Hariharālaya (nowadays Rolous) was taken place during the reign of Jayavarman II. Thereafter, King Indravarman I constructed Prasat Bakong, the stepped-pyramidal temple for dedicating to himself as the incarnation of Śiva. This temple is one of the first complete stepped pyramidal temple in Khmer art and this temple becomes the prototype for several later temples.
Art	Prasat Bakong comprises the sole main tower on the top of the stepped pyramidal base surrounded by the series of small temples. In the front, there are the gateways leading towards the staircases. The base is surrounded by series of the bigger brick temples which located on the ground and scattered in several directions (not visible in the photo). Prasat Bakong is the example of the earliest stepped pyramidal based temple as the temple is without the complexity and the base supports only one temple on the top. The complexity of the temple would be increased in the later period.
Art period	Preah Ko
Age	9th Century A.D.
Religion	Brahmanism-Hinduism
Sect	Shaivite

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-02-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali