Identifier: travelsincentral01mouh (find matches)
Title: Travels in the central parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos : during the years 1858, 1859, and 1860
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Mouhot, Henri, 1826-1861 Mouhot, Charles
Subjects: Mouhot, Henri, 1826-1861
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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nd 2 metres 25 centimetres high by48 centimetres broad. The columns are square, and, likeall other buildings in the province, are formed of singleblocks. There are five staircases on the west side, the samenumber on the east, and three on each of the remainingsides. The basement is 3 metres 90 centimetres in height,the length externally forming a terrace of 1 metre 67centimetres. Each portico is composed of three roofs raised oneabove the other, which contribute materially to give tothe architecture of these long galleries a monumentalappearance, producing a singularly beautiful eifect. The opposite side of the wall to the double colonnadeis, from the lowest row of cornices to one metre above itsbase, covered inside with bas-reliefs, having externallyblank windows with balustrades. There are two rows of cornices, the first part imme-diately above the columns; and the space, to the extentof nearly one metre, which lies between them, is filled upby roses and other sculptured designs. u2
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Chap. XII. BAS-EELIEFS. 293 The bas-reliefs represent the combat of the king of theapes with the king of the angels: * in the centre is theking of the angels, drawn by two griffins; he has sevenheads and twenty arms, with a sabre in each hand. Someof the chiefs are seated in cars drawn by fabulous animals,while others are mounted on elephants. The soldiers arearmed with bows, javelins, or sabres, but the apes havegenerally no weapons except their formidable claws: afew of them have clubs, sabres, or branches of trees. Peristyle No. 1.—Here is represented the march ofwarriors mounted on birds, horses, tigers, and fabulousanimals; the horses of the chiefs are led by the bridle.On the right the soldiers are advancing towards the sceneof combat in the centre; but here there are no fantasticanimals. Peristyle No. 2.—The bas-reliefs of this peristyle re-present the combat between the king of the apes and theking of the angels, and the death of the former. Close byis a boat filled with r

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