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Serpent Heads


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Nunnery, Uxmal

North Building, Right (east) End: remarkably surviving corner mask stacks. Top mask on left and doorway area entirely restored.
Jan. 2001
Serpent head at left side of photo at left.
Jan. 2001
Serpent Head at right side of photo at far left.
Jan. 2001
Front facade: serpent head on molding  just below cornice, toward left of main facade.
Jan. 2001
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)." Cf. recent photo at right.
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal", 1917 (fig. 48).
2002. Back Facade of North Building: head of serpent with feather fan on head.
Jan. 2002
ca.1873. East Building, Northwest corner, showing depressions from which heads had fallen.
Photograph by Augustus Plongeon, ca.1873. Scanned from high quality 35mm slide provided by the Getty Research Institute, taken from an original photograph in their collection. Reproduced with permission. Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (96.R.137-452).
2003. Same corner: serpent head projecting replaced in corner of cornice molding; tortoise head replaced in corner of medial molding.
Jan. 2003
Close-up of same tortoise head as in photo at left.
Jan. 2001
Quadrangle of the Birds (not part of Nunnery): frieze of front (east) facade of west building, entirely restored, showing serpent head at corner and 5 birds.
Jan. 2001
Same serpent head as in photo at left, open jaws.
Jan. 2001
Opposite side of same serpent head as in photos at left, open jaws.
Jan. 2001
 

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