Cock fight, Bayon temple bas-relief, Angkor, Cambodia

A small detail of the relief carvings on the outer walls surrounding the foundations of Bayon temple. Remarkable not just for their artistic and architectural skills, but also their imagery. Depicted were not just religious or political stories of wars and victorious kings as one might come to expect from an 800 year old state temple right in the very geometric center of the Khmer empire's royal city, but also scenes from everyday life involving ordinary people, as in this cockfight here.