Khmer Stone Lion

Singha.

สิงห์.

Lions were used as city or temple guardians in the pre-modern Khmer stone architecture of Northeast Thailand and Cambodia. The closest likenesses to the newly carved lion seen here are at Khmer temples in Northeast Thailand. For instance, at the eleventh to twelfth-century Prasat Hin Phimai, two lio...

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Full title: Khmer Stone Lion [electronic resource].
Alternative titles: Singha.
สิงห์.
Format: Physical Object           
Language: English
Published: 1991.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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