Detail of lintel, or fronton, of the east gopura of the 4th
enclosure. It is carved from a hard pink sandstone (quartz arenite),
as is much of the temple. Used exclusively for the walls of many
Khmer temples is laterite, which is actually hardened soil allowed to dry
and become stone-like. Here, we can clearly discern Indra mounted on his
three-headed elephant.
