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SculptureEmbossed Silver Plates
There are 66 silver plates embossed in different pictures including Buddha image, stupa and the wheel of law, each with distinctive pictures.
SculptureCraved rock depicting a Buddha image
The Buddha image is seated in a meditation attitude. There is an umbrella covering his head. On the right, there is the wheel of law placed on a pillar. On the left, there is a round Chedi.
SculptureConnecting block
The connecting block is utterly ruined. Made of stone, the connecting block is a square hunk of stone with a through hole in the middle and serves to connect the Dharmacakra to the pillar. The four sides of the block depict the First Sermon and are in s state of disrepair. Only one side gives details adequate for studying. The Buddha is seated in the European style on the throne, his right hand is showing preaching gesture, and his left hand is placed on the lap. Five Brahmins sitting below on the left hand side of the Buddha might possibly represent the Five Disciples before Buddhist ordination; while, on the right side, five Buddhist monks are sitting there, convincingly considered as the Five Disciples after entering monkhood. The figures right behind the Five Disciples on both sides could be deities and the Brahma devas.
SculptureDharmachakra
The Dharmacakra includes 3 main parts, namely a hub above which there is a through hole; spokes the spaces between which weren’t cut through and make the wheel look thick; and a felloe ornamented with a Kankhot or alternating lozenge motif. The lower part of the Wheel depicts an individual sitting cross-legged with a lotus in each hand which may represent Surya.
SculptureDharmachakra
This emsemble of Dharmacakra is complete, as it includes 3 parts, namely an octagonal pillar, a square socle, and a Wheel of Law. The square socle helps hold the wheel firmly on the pillar.The round wheel of law consists of 3 main components as follows: a hub, spokes, and a felloe. The spaces between spokes were cut through, and they make the Wheel look thin. The outer part of the Wheel is the felloe carved with a pattern of round flowers and rhombi. The rim of the felloe was carved with a Thai motif called Kanok which resembles flames. The triangular bottom part of the wheel serves to bear its load, and the socle below decorated with a pattern of lotus petals comes with a tenon joint which fits a mortise hole underneath the wheel. In the lower part, the square connecting block is ornamented with a pattern of round flowers and rhombi; and the four corners of the socle depict a Makara motif. The block was cut through as a mortise hole which serves to fix the wheel to the Dharmacakrastambha or the pillar. The lowest part of the octagonal pillar is a square base carved with a Hamsa motif; and on top of it, the bottom of the pillar resembles lotus petals. The top of the pillar was engraved with a pattern of flower garlands and flower tassels. The upmost part of the pillar is a top tenon for insertion into a mortise beneath the square socle.
SculptureVishnu
Vishnu image with cylindrical crown (Kiritamakuta) is typical to Pre-Angkorian period. Vishnu has four arms holding attributes including disc and conch of the upper hands as well as the club and the earth of the lower hands. He wears Sompot, in the front of which there are two fish-tail-liked tassels anticipating the later style of Angkorian period.
