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SculpturePhra Chao Lantong
This Buddha image is seated in the full-lotus seat on a supine lotus base with large petals and lotus stamens. It displays the Subduing Mara posture. It has a small oval face, small knotted hairs, flaming halo, narrow forehead, little mouth and the groove on the sides with a delicate body and large split ends centipede fang shaped sangha. It was enshrined within Ku Prasart.
SculptureThe Ku Phra Chao Lan Tong
The Ku Phra Chao Lan Tong has a base consisting of two lotus bases overlapping in the Yok Gej plan without Look Kaew Ok Kai. The bottom was added to decorate the Lanna stucco pattern, including flowers, leaves, and animal pictures inserted. Ruen That is a square room with three corners on each side. There is a Yok Gej in two corner arch, and each corner has a decorative pattern. Ruen That has a lotus base at the bottom and a lotus tiara on the top. There is a Phra Chao Lan Tong house inside with f a line angel’s decoration in the arch. Ruen That is a combination of a stacked floor and sloping roofs, which are popular styles in Lanna art.
ArchitectureSan Ta Pha Daeng
It is a Khmer-style prasat made of a large laterite that is commonly used in construction work in Khmer culture. The top of the prasat has already collapsed, only the room that used to place the idols and a porch at the entrance, facing east, that still remain. The lower part of the building starts from the floor supporting the lotus petal base. Above the base is a square-shaped Rueanthat with corners added. There is a porch extended to the east with a stairway in front of it. This is also a typical style of the Khmer castle and later, this style was chosen to develop the new chedi by the Sukhothai school which previously probably built in Hinduism or Mahayana Buddhism. It is believed that the upper part of the prasat which has completely collapsed is in a bar shape with layers like other typical Khmer castles.
ArchitecturePrasat Wat Chao Chan
It consists of the principle prasat in a square shape located in a center of a laterite wall in a rectangular diagram with a surface decorated with plaster. The bottom base is a set of inverted lotuses - supine lotus. There are four arches at the main building with only one entrance and one exit on the east side. The doors on the other sides are false doors. There is a room for enshrining idols at the front. Later in the Sukhothai period, this religious site had been transformed to a Buddhist temple instead by covering the surrounding area of the base that made the inverted lotuses- the supine lotus base submerged underground. A laterite viharn along with a laterite Mondop were then built in front of the prang prasat for enshrining Phra Athatharot in the north of the prang. Inside the Mondop, there are rough laterite shapes and a standing Buddha image with both hands attached to the body. The wooden roof has already collapsed, only pieces of clay tiles scattering around. Later, Fine Arts Department discovered an amulet decorated as a king made of lead and tin. When digging deeper, artifacts from the Dvaravati period such as Hariphunchai wares, glass beads, and human skeleton were found.
ArchitecturePrasat Khao Noi
The layout of Prasat Khao Noi consists of 3 brick buildings located in the north-south line. The northern and the southern ones have already collapsed, only the central one remains intact. The northern and the central prasats are on the same base but the northern prasat was extended outward. The southern prasat is on a base with the same height but slightly apart with only a connection by a brick base on the back. It can be seen that the construction of these 3 buildings are not in alignment which is similar to the construction of the prasats in Mueang Phra Nakhon of Khmer, which is not very organized.The north side of the prasat has a rectangular layout. There is only one entrance and one exit on the east side. The doors on the other sides are false doors. The entrance was extended so the diagram of the building is deep. The room’s diagram is rectangular with a curved hole on each side.The central prasat is a brickwork in a square plan extended with twelve wooden corners. There is only one entrance and one exit on the east side. The doors on the other sides are false doors. Inside is a room with different length on each side. The prasat on the southern side is a rectangular building on a brick base with the building made up of walls. There is a porch on the east entrance and the diagram inside the building is rectangular as well.
SculptureThe lintel from the middle Prasat Khao Noi
There are two Magaras engraved on both ends facing inward, spitting out four arc circles. It looks like there is a figure riding on top of the Magara and the bottom of the Magara has a base to support it. In the center and crescent areas where the curved patterns meet, there is an oval pattern or a three coin-shaped circle pattern. There are patterns of beads all around the edges of the curved circles. At the edges of the coin-shape circle pattern are both rosary and curled leaf patterns. Inside each coin-shaped circle engraved a deity on a vehicle while at the center within the curved patterns engraved four flower petals. Above the curved pattern, there is an upright leaf pattern and the bottom part of the curve engraved in garland patterns and inside each garland is a wavy leaf; they are the same size. The aforementioned details can be compared to the 7th Prasat Sombor Prikuk on the south.
ArchitecturePrasat Ku Phanna
It consists of the principle prasat in a square shape located in a center of a laterite wall in a rectangular diagram. The top part of the prasat has already collapsed. There is only one entrance and one exit on the east side. The doors on the other sides are false doors. The entrance and exit door was made into a long room with the porch in the front. The southeastern area of the principle prasat only appears the base of Banalai or repositories for scriptures made of laterite in a rectangular diagram. At the center of the east laterite wall appears an arch door or gopura in a cross-shaped square. Outside the wall on the northeastern side, there is a rectangular pond made of laterite as well.
ArchitecturePrasat Phanom Wan
Located in a square diagram facing east. The group of principle Prasats are consisted of the principle prasat, Antrala, and Mondop; they are on the same base.The diagram of the principle prasat is square with corners. There are porches and gates in all four directions. The porch in the east is connected to Antrala which is the insulator or porch, which forms a passage to the Mondop at the front. The Mondop has a rectangular diagram. There are gates in all four directions just like the principle prasat. The roof is in a curved-shape. All of them are surrounded with the curved outer wall that have gopuras in all four directions. Each corner of the curved outer wall appears a small square-shaped arch with an entrance and a gate that connects to both sides of the gopuras. In the south of the principle prasat in the curved outer wall area, there is a smaller prasat called Prang Noi. It is a diagram with additional corners. The base was made of laterite. The part of building was made of sandstone. There is only one entrance and one exit in the east. The doors on the other sides are false doors. Nowadays the top has already collapsed. The building of the prasat has not been decorated yet, only the castle-shaped outline can be seen. From the aforementioned characteristics, it is assumed that this Prang Noi is likely to be in the 16th century B.E. onwards. Inside the Prang Noi also enshrined the Buddha's sandstone footprint. In addition, several bases of brick building surrounding the principle prasat were found inside the curved outer wall.
