The objective of this panel is to show up the latest results of archaeological, epigraphic and art historical research of Koh Ker and thereby highlight its importance in the early history of the Khmer Empire as well as its significance as part of Cambodian cultural heritage. The inscriptions at Banteay Pir Can lie on the inner, eastern peristyle pillars of the western gopura. The IC Inventory records four inscriptions after Lajonquiere and Parmentier. The latter found the recorded inscriptions to have been "in a pitiful state", which has of course not improved since and has rather become the general character of the shrine complex. In reading Coedes, the inscriptions recorded under itinerary codes K.678, K.679, K.680 and K.681 in one of the texts reveal the dating of 859 caka (937 A.D.), and beyond that exclusively contains lists of the names of servants and various settlements. (IC1:54-55)