Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Angkor' has mentioned 'Stone' in the following places:
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Through a program of military campaigns, alliances, marriages and land grants, he achieved a unification of the country bordered by China to the north, Champa (now Central Vietnam) to the east, the ocean to the south and a place identified by a stone inscription as "the land of cardamoms and mangoes" to the west. | WIKI |
[4] At its peak, the city occupied an area greater than modern Paris, and its buildings use far more stone than all of the Egyptian structures combined. | WIKI |
Some temples have been carefully taken apart stone by stone and reassembled on concrete foundations, in accordance with the method of anastylosis. | WIKI |
In Angkorian times, all non-religious buildings, including the residence of the king himself, were constructed of perishable materials, such as wood, "because only the gods had a right to residences made of stone. | WIKI |
"[43] Similarly, the vast majority of the surviving stone inscriptions are about the religious foundations of kings and other potentates. | WIKI |
Temples from the period of Chenla bear stone inscriptions, in both Sanskrit and Khmer, naming both Hindu and local ancestral deities, with Shiva supreme among the former. | WIKI |
[47] Characteristic of the religion of Chenla also was the cult of the lingam, or stone phallus that patronized and guaranteed fertility to the community in which it was located. | WIKI |
[63] Of the Shaivites, whom he called "Taoists", Zhou wrote, "the only image which they revere is a block of stone analogous to the stone found in shrines of the god of the soil in China. | WIKI |
All that remains of that civilization is its rich heritage of cult structures in brick and stone. | UNESCO |