Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Angkor Wat [site]
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Accession Number:
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187824
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Order Title:
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Archivision Addition Module SEVEN--6,160 images
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Type of View:
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generalView
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View Title:
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Distant context view, approaching complex before the moat, from the west with cruciform terrace
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Date of View:
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2/21/2011
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Image description:
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The entrance consists of three gopuras, each surmounted by a tower replicating the central tower-sanctuaries of the temple itself and flanked on the north and south by galleries open on the outside that terminate in two further gopuras without staircases to permit carts and elephants to enter at ground level.
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Image Rights:
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¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Source Institution:
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Archivision, Inc.
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Collection:
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Addition Module SEVEN
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Culture:
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Cambodian
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Work Types:
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complexes; sites (locations); historic sites
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Work Types:
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Architecture; religious structures; temples
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Preferred Title:
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Angkor Wat [site]
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Agent Display:
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Unknown (Cambodian)
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Date:
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ca. 1113-1177 (creation)
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Materials:
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sandstone; brick; laterite
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurement:
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4.5 m (height, outer wall) x 802 m (width, outer wall) x 1024 m (length, outer wall)
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Alternate Title:
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Prasat Angkor Wat
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Alternate Title:
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Angkor Vat
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Locations:
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Angkor Wat, Si¿m R¿ab , Cambodia
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Location Type:
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(site)
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Style/Period:
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Suryavarman II
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Style/Period:
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Ankorean
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Classification:
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Architecture
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