AIA Fieldwork Photo Contest 2021

Entry 41082

Submitted by Irwin H. Segel

Banteay Srei

Siem Reap, Southeast Asia, Cambodia

Category: Monuments

A courtyard of the Banteay Srei Temple (ca. 10th century), known as the pink temple or the Citadel of the Women, possibly because of its intricate carvings of devatas (female deities) in the pink sandstone

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