Khai quật phế tích kiến trúc An Phú (thành phố Pleiku, tỉnh Gia Lai)

Tóm tắt

The An Phú sites have been known since the early 20th century through descriptions of brick tower structures in the Kodo plateau, called Bo Mong Yang and Rong Yang, with stone pedestals and goddess reliefs, broken pieces of bronze statue, so on. They’re called a Champa temple. Until the 1960s and 1970s, these temples had almost no longer existed on surface site because they had been dug up for bricks and soil over many years. From 2022 up to now, the relic has been continuously explored and excavated with a total area of 486.25 m2 , thereby revealing the foundation of a brick temple ruins with a square wall (32 - 33m wide) and the stone foundations of the main central temple are of the same stone structure that was first described when discovered. One of the most important discoveries in An Phú site is ‘a deposit pit’ structure with an inscription of the “Ye dharma hetu prabhaava” and jewelry made from glass (monochrome and polychrome), gemstone, is the basis to conclude that this is a Buddhist temple with dating about the end of the 9th to early 10th centuries. This is the first discovered deposit pit structure of a Buddhist temple with a swastika-shaped at the center composing with 8 bricks containing full ritual objects being discovered in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. These new discoveries help us to consider about the relationship of India style of religious architecture in the Central Highlands with the similar architectures in the region, as well as to help to identify clearer the inter-relationship between the highland and the coastal region in the Central Vietnam as well as with the Mainland Southeast Asia in history.