Yeay Tei Temple

Also recorded as Prasat Don Tei and Daun Tei, it’s the site of an ancient brick temple that was surrounded by a moat. At the site today several remnants can still be seen including a beautiful makara-naga corner piece, a lintel fragment with an image of kala, a pink sandstone pedestal, a small grinding table, a tower crown, a window column, etc., and fragments of decorated door columns featuring a unique pattern.

Historical Notes

Prasat Don Tei. This temple is located about a kilometer to the E. from Chrui Neang Nguon village, residence of the governor of Dong Yean district.

It is a square, brick sanctuary of unusual proportions. 7 meters by 7 wide facades. Its door opened to the E… its secondary faces were adorned with false doors. It was raised on a high base of limonite whose steps disappear under the accumulation of debris. This building is. indeed, ruin up to half height of its secondary facades: as for the main one, with the frame of its door and its decorative pieces. it is completely reversed; the decorative lintel from it is, moreover, remained unfinished: it measures 2.10 m length x .9 m x.3m section.

A limonite gopura had been started on the E face, at the mouth of a causeway which crosses the basin-ditch.

With a few pedestals we find there, on the debris, a rather pretty statue of Parvati. 1.34 m high, which is only missing its four forearms which have been broken. The waist is thin and elongated; the head, of a sufficiently clear design, is topped with a very ornate conical mukuta; his feet are one with a base square, on the front edge of which is carved a small ox’s head, identifying the statue

Inventaire descriptif des monuments du Cambodge, E. Lunet de Lajonquière, 1902

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