Dear All, It's a very sad moment for the great lost of a Khmer academic,Mr Meo Kinal. I would like to share my condolence with the Keo family. May his soul rest in peace.
Ung Bun Heang a former student of University of Fine Arts ,1965-1975. ----- Original Message ----- From: S. Sophan To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [CANCAMBODIA] Fw: The death of Mr. Keo Kinal, a Cambodian archaeologist. Dear Everyone; CAN would like to share condolence with Mr. Kina's family for this great loss of his family, Cambodian archaeologists and nation! Click link for detail: http://cancambodia.info/?p=106 And also, if you can share his academic works, it would be great to learn from him and share his works among Cambodian graduates and scholars. I wish him stay in peace. With Metta, Sophoan On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:44 PM, PONG Pheakdey Boramy <[email protected]> wrote: Dear all Anybody know what the cause of the death is; it seemed to me that he is still young, energetic, and proactive with his work and teaching. Thanks Boramy On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Perom.Uch <[email protected]> wrote: I have heard about Lok Kru Kanal. He's at peace now. I know he isn't in pain now, but he has passed his pain on to us and now we have to live with it. We want to express our deepest condolences to the family. With our deepest sympathy, /Perom and Famiy On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:19 PM, penn setharin <[email protected]> wrote: Its really very sad to loss such a good scholar.I would like to send my deep condolence to the Family of Lok Kruu Kinal and to Prof Pich Keo his father I used to respect. Penn Setharin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] To: ; Subject: [CANCAMBODIA] Fw: The death of Mr. Keo Kinal, a Cambodian archaeologist. Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:55:54 +0100 I'm really sorry to learn of the loss of Lok Krou Kinal... ----- Original Message ----- From: Chen Chanratana To: Michel Antelme Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 8:40 AM Subject: The death of Mr. Keo Kinal, a Cambodian archaeologist. Dear Bong Michel, Kerdomnel Khmer Group just lost an important supervisor of archaeology and history of khmer art, Prof. Keo Kinal (son of Prof. Pich Keo, professor of khmer art history) on Nov. 12th, 2011. I send this mail to you for helping me to spread the information to whom which may concerned. Please read his biography as above or click to the link of Kerdomnel Khmer website: http://kerdomnelkhmer.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/the-death-of-a-cambodian-archaeologist-keo-kinals-biography/ May his soul rest in peace. Best regards, Ratana -------- CHEN Chanratana Founder of KDNK Group Together We Can Protect...! www.kerdomnelkhmer.wordpress.com Keo Kinal (by Daniel Robinson in Cambodia, Lonely Planet, p. 284) Apsara danced and seven-headed nagas stood guard when the archaeologist Keo Kinal was born, inside the Angkor Conservation compound in Siem Reap. The year was 1973 and his father, the eminent archaeologist Pich Keo, was in charge of Angkor Conservation and its huge collection of Angkorian statuary, the last director before darkness descended. Mr. Pich was one of only three Cambodian archaeologist to emerge alive from the Khmer Rouge terror. ‘He survived’, say his son, ‘because he didn’t wear glasses’, and he managed to keep secret his identity as an intellectual and a speaker of French – both tantamount to a death sentence under the Khmer Rouge – while he worked like a coolie…to transport fish from the lake to provide for the community. My mother, as other ladies, worked in the rice fields’. Kinal’s elder brother died of malnutrition and illness in 1976. When I spoke with Kinal at Sambor Prei Kuk (Above), where he was overseeing an excavation 3m under the floor of a pre-angkorian brick temple, he was, as usual, accessorized with a dashing krama. His team had just uncovered a delicately carved stone block and he was helping two men in hard hats clean it off. As damp earth was brushed away, the outline of an elegant deity emerged. Despite being born with a silver archaeologist’s trowel in his mouth, Kinal did not grown up dreaming of following in his father’s muddy footsteps. ‘In reality’, he says, ‘I was not interested in archaeology at all. I wanted to study in the faculty of Medicine but I failed the (admissions) exam. Then I took the exam for literature – but failed. The next exam was for the faculty of Economics. But still I fail! The fourth one was engineering. But again I fail – because of money: I cannot pay” – under the table – ‘to “pass” the exam. So my father suggested that I apply for archaeology. That exam I could pass!’ From 1991 to 1996 Kinal studied in the Faculty of Archaeology at the Royal University of Fine Arts and after graduation spent three months in Nara, Japan, at the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. ‘That was my first winter because in Cambodia, no winter!’ he laughs. ‘It was my first time seeing snow! Before, I saw snow on the TV, finally I have a chance to play in snow. We rode snow saucers and excavated under the snow’ – just what you’d expect an archaeologist to do. In 2003, Kinal returned to Japan to do a master’s degree at the prestigious Tokyo National University of the Arts. Back in Cambodia, Kinal found himself lecturing on Western art history at the Faculty of Archaeology. ‘While I was a lecturer, I had the chance, with the sponsorship of Unesco, to visit Rome for one month. I visited many, many temples, including the Colosseum and, of course, the Pantheon. But the most interesting for me were the catacombs.’ He still can’t get over the sheer size of the Pantheon, nothing that its dome is 43m in diameter and ‘the hole in the top’ – the oculus – is ‘9m in diameter – that is fantastic!’ Surprisingly, perhaps, there seem to have been points of contact between Pantheon-era Rome and Funan-era Cambodia. ‘From the 2nd century AD we have the maritime trade from the Roman Empire, crossing the (Mekong Delta) port of Oc Eo, to China’, Kinal explains. As for the Roman coins unearthed at Oc Eo, which is in the Mekong Delta about 70km south of Angkor Borei (p238): ‘When merchants stopped there probably they used (Rome) coins to do exchanged’. In ancient Cambodia all the roads most certainly did not lead to Rome but, it seems, at least one did. Kinal hopes to follow it someday soon back to Italy: ‘I wish to visit other places, especially Pompeii and Venice’. (Keo Kinal lives with his wife, Mrs. Toun Sorphea, on the grounds of Angkor Conservation in Siem Reap and works for the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts). His last day: Keo Kinal has passed away on the ambulance along the National Road N° 6, direction from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh. 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