Banteay Srei 2

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Like most Khmer temples, Banteay Srei is oriented to the east. Four eastern Gopuram is all that remains of the outer wall. Just to the left is a dam 67 meters from the remnants of the corridor on both sides of the United Gopuram with the third body. The third body is 95 to 110 meters, covered with Gopuram and has laterite walls on the east and west. The main part of the territory is inside the third body of the ditch, it is divided into two parts by the walls on the east and west.

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The subsequent second building Banteay Srei is laterite wall and has a size of 38 by 42 meters. Inside it a brick wall collapsed a building and isolated the first Gopuram. East Gopuram shows Shiva as the central western Gopuram was a sanctuary, with access from both sides. Between Gopuram impose an inner shell of the building: in the northeast and southwest corners of the libraries are located in the center of the sanctuary established a T shaped platform height of 90 cm The most extravagant part of Banteay Srei design have been successfully restored, which helped the longevity of sandstone, and their small size. Remedial work was carried out in 2005, and the entire first building was closed to visitors.

The entrance to the sanctuary is to the east and is only 1.08 meters in height: inside the chamber with a ceiling made of brick and a short corridor leading to the three towers to the west. The central tower of Banteay Srei is the highest 9,8 meters. Glaize notes impression of the sensitivity of the towers at each of its levels. There were six stairs leading to the platform, and each guarded by two statues of human figures with animal heads, most of them this is a duplicate, the originals were stolen or exhibited in museums.

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Architecture Banteay Sray

Banteay Srei style is a mixture of the archaic with the innovation. It is built mainly of red sandstone, brick and laterite used only for the walls of the shell and some structural elements. In Banteay Srei that first began to use the whole wall at the front, and the jumpers with the central figures. Fine thread covers almost all the available surface of the temple to perform a deep sculptures. This style is reflected partly in the temple of Preah Vihear. Architect Glaize wrote: "Given the special charm of Banteay Srei, the perfect and ideal state in which he kept and the perfection of an ideal technique of decorative art, we can without hesitation see all the monuments of Angkor, to give it the highest priority." He also pointed out that the miniature scale and designed jewelry of Banteay Srei, made him more than the model of the monument: "work more closely connected with the art of the jeweler or carving, than to sculpture in stone".