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Kampuchea Chef Let’s pay another quick visit to the Angkor National Museum in Siem Reap. Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Let’s pay another quick visit to the Angkor National Museum in Siem Reap.
At the start of 1934, Robert Dalet of Ecole française d'Extréme-Orient (EFEO) is at the end of a mission lasting 18 months, spent excavating and researching in the provinces surrounding Phnom Penh, namely Kompong Speu, Kandal, Takeo, Kompong Cham, Pursat and Kompong Chhnang; he identified and logged nearly 1,000 archaeological items, sites, pagodas, sculptures and more besides. He was like a man possessed and the current collection is that much richer and varied thanks to the indefatigable Robert Dalet. At the village of O’Kambot (in the Prei Puoch/Thnal Toteng district of Kandal) he reported the following: ‘’At 1800m near O’Kambot, are three other mounds: the least far from the wat is the Tuol Ang Kambot Ka; it is a hillock which seems they left the remainder of three towers, and a remarkable life-size Visnu. He had four arms which are as missing as his legs; the head is smiling, which is quite rare at this time; it is capped with a high cylindrical miter and an important ‘boucle anglaises’ (loops of falling hair) from behind; the earlobes are pierced to receive real jewelry. The arrangement of the sampot is interesting, in curved folds spaced apart from the belt buckle and continuing on the buttocks. The mass of material between the legs begins and ends with a dovetail pan.’’ Dalet believed a series of mounds in the area indicated he had found an ancient city with numerous monuments.
The Vishnu sculpture was delivered to the National Museum later in 1934 and logged into the collection (Ka.1637/B.346). It’s dated to the early to mid-7th century, though initially when the Phnom Da style was thought to be 6th century, it fell into that category. It’s an elegant piece albeit having suffered some surface damage and scratches over the centuries, is now without its four arms, attributes and both legs below the knees. The face is benign with a tall miter on his head, with those previously-mentioned ringlets hanging down from the back of the headdress. The body is slim and the sampot short with incised pleats. This standing Vishnu was transferred to the Angkor National Museum for its opening in 2007, where it is now proudly on display in Gallery A.
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