Pillar on the East entrance gate
The main entrance to the temple is a low gate on the East side of the enclosing wall. The gate is topped with a pillar that shows the temple’s Khmer origin. The well preserved sculptings of four faces remind of the face towers of the Bayon in Angkor, a temple built by King Jayavarman VII around the same time as the Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat. The four faces are believed to depict either the Bodhisattva Lokeshvara or Brahma, the Hindu God depicted with four heads. Below it are sculptings of Apsaras, female divine beings often found on the walls of Angkor temples.