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Great Palace


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West (left) Side with Upper Level

1930. West end, left half of front facade, and ruined central staircase.
Photograph by Dan Leyrer as member of the Blom/Tulane expedition, 1930. Scanned from 35mm slide of the original photograph (M.31.7.40). Reproduced with permission of the Middle American Research Institute (MARI), Tulane University.
2003. Same view as photo at left, partly reconstructed and restored.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
1946. Reconstruction drawing of proposed original appearance, with figurative sculpture over upper doorways.
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.
Upper level; most surfaces left plain; areas above doorways restored; tenons project indicating support for decorative motifs and/or figures, and break in cornice indicates that these projected above roofline.
Jan. 2001
Upper level, looking west along front wall, restored, narrow platform.
Jan. 2002
1975. Northwest corner, showing back walls, continuous moldings and colonnettes; back partly restored 1962 (not "northeast corner" as in caption).
Scanned from George F. Andrews, Maya Cities, Placemaking and Urbanization, 1975, p.369. Reproduced with permission of the University of Oklahoma Press.

West end of narrow upper level, with special features: curved corner stones; refined, six-stone, double depth stone jambs, restored; and modern wooden lintel.
Jan. 2001

Roof of west end of mid-level.
Jan. 2001
West end of platform for upper level.
Jan. 2001
 

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