This statue is placed close to the most famous landmark in Kep, the blue swimming crab statue.
It is a statue in white of a Apsara deity playing the Cambodian harp instrument Pin. But she is not the same as the other famous statue in Kep, the White Lady, or Lady waiting for her seafaring man to return.
Playing third pin of the statues near Kep Beach, the statue is still important in Khmer cultural history.
The Pin is an arched harp, first found in engravings in Sambor Prey Kouk, the capital of Chenla. The Chenla kingdom was the last Khmer kingdom before the declaration of the Khmer Angkor Empire in 802 CE.
The Pin went out of use with the empire in the 1500s. But it is now being restored as a significant part of the musical cultural heritage of Cambodia. Even if the instrument itself was lost for hundreds of years, its name was not. The very name for Cambodian classical music Is still “pinpeat” in Khmer (Khmer: ពិណពាទ្យ).
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Show moreThis statue is placed close to the most famous landmark in Kep, the blue swimming crab statue.
It is a statue in white of a Apsara deity playing the Cambodian harp instrument Pin. But she is not the same as the other famous statue in Kep, the White Lady, or Lady waiting for her seafaring man to return.
Playing third pin of the statues near Kep Beach, the statue is still important in Khmer cultural history.
The Pin is an arched harp, first found in engravings in Sambor Prey Kouk, the capital of Chenla. The Chenla kingdom was the last Khmer kingdom before the declaration of the Khmer Angkor Empire in 802 CE.
The Pin went out of use with the empire in the 1500s. But it is now being restored as a significant part of the musical cultural heritage of Cambodia. Even if the instrument itself was lost for hundreds of years, its name was not. The very name for Cambodian classical music Is still “pinpeat” in Khmer (Khmer: ពិណពាទ្យ).
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