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Vishnu
Not on view
In the late eighth century, the Khmer king Jayavarman II moved his capital from Vyadhpura, likely in eastern Cambodia, to Hariharalaya (modern Roluos). In 802 he performed a consecration ceremony (abhisheka) on Phnom Kulen, a mountain plateau northeast of the Tonle Sap lake, a early religious center of the Khmer royal household. A series of single-cell brick sanctuary temples on Phnom Kulen built during his reign are associated with a small corpus of important sculptures, including this Vishnu. Stylistically, it marks the moment of transition from the pre-Angkorian world to the beginnings of the Angkorian period.
cat. no. 79
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