Ancient statues discovered at Angkor Thom’s Takav gate

Ancient Angkorian statues were uncovered by an archeological team at Angkor Thom’s Takav Gate, or West gate, an ANA spokesman confirmed yesterday, adding that the statues were from the Naga balustrade that stretched across the bridge in front of the gate. The statues are still stuck at the bottom of Angkor Thom’s moat, but technicians are in the process of extracting them, ANA spokesman Long Kosal said.

“The ANA team was excavating the bottom of the dry moat when they found almost whole statues and stone fragments of other statues, but we can’t remove them  until the statues are free of the surrounding dirt,” he told Khmer Times yesterday. The three nearly whole statues were part of the gate’s balustrade, while the fragments were from the balustrade and other statues.

Chea Socheat, ANA archeology officer, explained that the statues date back to the reign of Jayavarman VII, who was the Angkorian King from the 12th century to the beginning of the 13th century.

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