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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. 95. Uxmal. House of the Magician. The old summit building. Lower half of the frieze of the main facade (west front)."
1917
"Fig. 96. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Old summit building. Main facade (west front). Strips filled with astronomical symbols on the northern half of the main wall surface towards the side of the door."
1917
"Fig. 97. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Old summit building. Main facade (west front). Strips filled with astronomical symbols on the southern half of the main wall surface towards the side of the door."
1917
"Fig. 98a. Uxmal. House of the Magician. The current summit building. Ground plan."
1917
"Fig. 98b. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Summit structure. Bowl shaped deepenings on the vault sides."
1917
"Fig. 99. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Summit building. Foundation, wall surface and frieze of the middle section of the back side (east front)."
1917
"Fig. 100. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Summit building. Undersatz. Wall surface and frieze of the middle section of the western main facade."
1917
"Fig. 101. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Summit building. Middle section of the western main facade. Flower-pattern on the socles of the stone figures that were fit into the rhombus lattice of the wall surface."
1917
"Fig. 102. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Summit structure. West-front. Masks arranged on the frieze-upper molding."
1917
"Fig. 103a. Uxmal. Southern long-building on the back side of the House of the Parrots. Ground plan."
1917
"Fig. 103b. Uxmal. Southern long-building on the back side of the House of the Parrots. Post holes."
1917
"Fig. 103c. Uxmal. Southern long-building on the back side of the House of the Parrots. Structure of the outer front."
1917
 

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