Khmer Chariots? (Slingshot 308 repris)

[Dangun]

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



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.

[Swampster]

Though even the use of a chariot in a procession doesn't necessarily indicate their use in war - the Romans used them in processions.

[aligern]

Wasn't the last Merovingian king trolled around in a  cart?
Presumably in battle the top Khmer would be riding an elephant?
Roy

[Dangun]

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."

[aligern]

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