ABSTRACT
Over the course of many years in graduate school, the authors learnt enormously from Michael W. Meister, including possibilities of how narratives could be completely visual. The primacy of material sources informed our work as the absence of texts required an approach that was visual. The structure is contextualized using comparanda and other forms of evidence beyond merely stylistic; recording and analysing the method of construction, it is possible to provide agency to the crafts-guilds that were involved in building the temple. Historic architecture is often used as an instrument of making territorial claims. The dynastic, regional and national mapping of space is often based on architectural remains. In the absence of epigraphic or literary evidence, stylistic attributes of individual architectural sites are the means for dynastic attribution, and also to make spatial assertions for those dynasties.
