IV - Gateway in centre of western Gallery.<BR> <BR> This photograph gives a closer view of the gateway seen in the preceding picture. <BR> It may be taken as an example of the proportion and general appearance of all the entrances to the temple - the projecting columns supporting a richly ornamented architrave and corbeled roof; the pilasters on either side of the entrance aborned with chaste and elaborate ornament; a doorway of the most classic proportion, and finished with graceful mouldings.<BR> In examining this picture, one cannot fail to be struck with the taste displayed in construction, and the classical appearance of the whole. Regarding the pillars, Fergusson says - "The proportion of diameter to height; the entasis; the proportion between the upper and lower diameter; the capital and its abacas; the base with its plinth; the architrave, &c., are so like the Roman order, that it is difficult to conceive of the likeness being accidental. How the pillars came there we do not know; but we must not overlook the fact, that in the traditions collected by Dr. Bastian, and more especially in those extracted from Siamese books by Col. Low, nothing is so commonly asserted and insisted upon as the presence of a prince of Rome, of Romans, and of white men."*<BR> <BR> *Fergusson's Architecture. Bk. vi., ch. ii<BR> in: Album "The antiquities of Cambodia a series of photographs taken on the spot With Letterpress Description By John Thomson, F.R.G.S., F.E.S.L., Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas MDCCCLXVII"; opgenomen in KIT Library ILS (RF-279) page 25.