Mong Temple

Scattered ruins of what was once a group of nine brick temples.

Historical Notes

Translated from French, Inventaire descriptif Monuments du Cambodge, E. Lajonquiere, 1901

Prasat Mong. It is located approximately 300 meters N. of Kuk Balang (nº 704), on a very elongated mound, in a N.-S direction. and surrounded by a basin-ditch. There we find the remains of nine brick sanctuaries, all open to the E. and arranged on the same line. They are not of identical construction and it is to be presumed that they were built on successive dates; However, their state of ruin allows only conjectures on this subject; none of them, in fact, even has a section of wall still standing; their debris forms a long mound from which only the sandstone frames of their doors emerge.

At the N. sanctuary, the decorative lintel of the door is type III with a central figurine representing a woman seated facing on a throne, while two elephants raise their trunks above her head which hold flowers. Of the sanctuary which follows, going from N. to S., only the frame of the red sandstone door remains. The next one still has its octagonal columns ringed with moldings. In front of the door frame of the fifth, a fragment of decorative lintel, type III, does not present any figure of a person; its columns are not finished. The sixth has a gray sandstone door frame. The next three appear larger and form a sort of particular group; we can only see the upper part of the lintels of the frames of their doors which are made of red sandstone.

We believe that it will be necessary to have these piles of bricks cleared, under which we will perhaps find inscriptions.

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