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Vaulted Archway


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Inner (Northwest) Face and Reconstruction Drawing

Looking south to inner (northwest) face of vaulted archway (cf. reconstruction drawing below).
Jan. 2002
2002. Looking southeast to inner face (cf. reconstruction drawing below).
Jan. 2002
Looking east to inner face; two traditional hut shapes with elongated thatched roofs rest on medial molding.
Jan. 2002
1946. Reconstruction drawing of inside of Residential Group, with Vaulted Archway as entrance.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed (Peabody 50-63-20/18499). Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Detail of reconstruction drawing at left, showing proposed appearance of roofcomb and attached sculpture.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed. Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Detail of reconstruction drawing at far-left, showing proposed details of roofcomb and attached sculpture.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed. Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Remains of mask and medial molding on north corner.
Jan. 2001
Inner face of vaulted archway, showing small tenons both sides of arched opening, presumably to support stucco figures.
Jan. 2002
Detail of view in photo at left; the wide capstones showing that the so-called "Arch" cannot have been a structural arch.
Jan. 2002
 

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