331 AD . Indravarman

A temple mountain enclosed by a laterite wall and two moats the outer of which measures about 900 by 700 meters.   The third such temple after Ak Yum and Rong Cheng (at Phnom Kulen to the north east) and the first to make extensive use of sandstone.  The stele tells of the foundation of the linga (a stone phallus, representative of Shiva) in 881 AD.  The brick towers have finely detailed sandstone elements and some remnants of stucco molding.   The central sanctuary in the Angkor Wat style, which was probably built two centuries after the main temple, was resurrected from a pile of rubble between 1936 and 1943.

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