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1917 Seler

All the illustrations of line drawings of Uxmal in Eduard Seler's monumental study, "Die Ruinen von Uxmal," published in Abhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Nr. 3. Berlin: Verlag der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1917. The more elaborate drawings are signed by Wilhelm von den Steinem and most of the other drawings are consistent with his hand; based on on-site drawings by Seler and other material. I have scanned these images from the copy in the University of Rochester Library, with appreciation. On this web site, the captions are literal translations of the German caption.



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"Fig. 41. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building and the old building on the base of the north-building-supporting terrace."
1917
"Fig. 42c to e. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. The western of the two old buildings on the base of the terrace on which the north building lies. One of the columns of the front-wall that supports the roof edge."
1917
"Fig. 43. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Northwest corner of the 8-10 meter high terrace on which stands the building. (From a sketch by Caecilie Seler.)"
1917
"Fig. 44. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Main facade. The first adjoining doorway on the eastern end of the facade. Behind the surrounding ledge of the newly attached facade there becomes visible a ledge of the old facade ornamented with a zigzag line."
1917
"Fig. 45b. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Sketch of the facade. completing main ledge, frieze, frieze-lower molding (girdle molding), wall surface, foundation."
1917
"Fig. 46. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North structure. Serpent head, from the middle section of the surrounding ledge, on the corner diagonally protruding."
1917
"Fig. 47a, b. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North structure. Back side (north side). Stone figures of captives attached to the first and third smooth frieze pieces (counted from the east)."
1917
"Fig. 48. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Back side (north side). Serpent head attached to the second smooth fires piece (counting from the east)."
1917
"Fig. 49. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Back side (north side). Serpent head in one of the smooth frieze pieces at the west end."
1917
"Fig. 51. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Main facade (south front). Filler stones in the mesh of the itzcouatl-lattice quadrant of the frieze."
1917
"Fig. 52. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Main facade (South front). Stone figure of a captive, in the middle of the quadrant square of the frieze surface between the fourth and fifth doors (counted from the west)."
1917
"Fig. 53. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Main facade (south front). Stone figure of a drummer (?) from the frieze piece near the east end of the facade."
1917
 

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