I didn't get to Banteay Chmar with a camera before I wrote that article.
But I found this recently, a Khmer king on a chariot, in a secular procession.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/74991559@N07/shares/e5waTW (https://www.flickr.com/photos/74991559@N07/shares/e5waTW)
(https://www.flickr.com/gp/74991559@N07/kG3D7m)
I know SE Asia is not for everyone, but there was a polite disagreement about whether it could be said definitively that the Khmer did not use chariots.
Though even the use of a chariot in a procession doesn't necessarily indicate their use in war - the Romans used them in processions.
Wasn't the last Merovingian king trolled around in a cart?
Presumably in battle the top Khmer would be riding an elephant?
Roy
Quote from: Swampster on November 15, 2020, 10:26:21 AM
Though even the use of a chariot in a procession doesn't necessarily indicate their use in war - the Romans used them in processions.
Sure, we obviously don't know how precisely the reliefs reflected reality.
But to reject all depictions of processions introduces a very high hurdle for evidence to pass over. Using that logic you have just wiped out all of the evidence from Angkor Wat's "historic procession."
T must be a tick towards them having cars ,though not conclusive evidence of battlefield use. It would mean more if thete were several in the procession?
Roy