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Shiva, recognizable by the crescent moon on his piled-up hair, is a Hindu god who was revered by the kings of 10th-century Cambodia. He wears a knee-length skirt tied in the back with distinctive pleated “double-anchor” or “fishtail” pendants in front. In the 9th century the city of Angkor emerged as one of the most magnificent metropolises of Southeast Asia. Hundreds of Hindu and Buddhist temples, adorned with sculptures like this one, were built in and around the city by powerful kings of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of Southeast Asia from the 9th to the 15th century.
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