P03258.427
Photograph P03258.427 Period 1990-1999A young girl sells birds from a makeshift cage at the base of the Wat Phnom Temple dedicated to the woman who, according to legend, founded a monastery on the site of the capital in 1372. Sited near
P03258.428 Accession Number: P03258.428
Description
Two soldiers, both members of the Indonesian contingent to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) rest next to the Wat Phnom Buddhist temple and stone memorial erected near the banks of the Tonle Sap River on the highest artificial hill in Phnom Penh. A small offertory with a jar full of incense sticks sits in front of the monument, which commemorates, according to legend, the founding of the capital in 1372 by a rich Khmer woman known as 'Penh', who found four small Buddha statues lodged in a tree trunk near the Mekong and set up a monastery on a hill (or 'phnom' in Khmer) nearby. Following the conquest of the Khmer capital Angkor Wat in 1431 by the Thais, Cambodia's centre of influence gradually shifted to Phnom Penh, an easily defended site at the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers.
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Accession Number
P03258.428
Maker
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Colour - Film original transparency (positive) other
Date Made
1993
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor H Smith
Copyright
AWM copyright
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