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Title
Ta Prohm (second enclosure), tree roots framing a bay
Date Created
1942 to 1962
Contributors
- Palgen-Maissoneuve, Mimi, 1918-1995 (Photographer)
Topical Subject
Resource Type
Extent
1 image
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.10132
Note
ASU Libraries undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold about images in our collections. If you can identify a landmark or person please send details to: digitalrepository@asu.edu. Thank you for helping describe and caption this important historical image.
The object depicted in the image is made of the following material(s): laterite, sandstone
Information about the creation of the object depicted in the image: 1186
Information about the restoration of the object depicted in the image: 1920
This temple-monastery was posthumously dedicated to Jayavarman VII’s mother, Jayarajachudamani, and his guru, Jayamangalartha. According its foundation stele, there were 12,640 people in residence, and the temple was served by 79,365 people from surrounding villages. The Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient decided to leave the temple in its ‘natural state’ as an example of how Angkor looked when it was discovered in the 19th century, and since then it has been maintained in this condition of deliberate neglect. Visitors are drawn to the temple ruins because of the dramatic effect created by the entanglement of tree roots and forest vegetation with the architectural structure of the monument.
Source for information about the object depicted in the image: Jessup, Helen Ibbitson. Art and Architecture of Cambodia. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. Freeman M. and C. Jacques. Ancient Angkor. London: Thames and Hudson, 1999.
To request permission to publish please complete the form located at the Department of Archives and Special Collections web site: http://hdl.handle.net/2286/7f5bakntwx1.
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