Lintel

History of production	The palace Gate of Angkor Thom was built in the reign of king Suriyavaraman I who built the paradise. This gate is built to surround the palace and the paradise. The stone wall was a new concept to replace wooden wall, which was easy to be attacked.
Art	Lintels in Bapuan art have the garland that was inherited from the previous period. The middle of the garland drops down to the bottom. There is a Kala holding the garland and the ends of the garland curve out. Above the garland is the erecting leaves and under the garland is the falling leaves. Between the leaves, there are triangular leaves. However, there is quarter part of the garland that is originally decorated as “ an animal face biting the garland”. Initially , A French scholar believed that it was Klang art., but it was later found that the smae kind of lintel is found to be built in the sam period with Bapuan art. Therefore, it is classified as Bapuan art as well.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Baphuon
Age	16 Century BE.
Religion	Brahmanism-Hinduism

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