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Great Palace


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Mid Level of West (left) Side

Sayil, Great Palace: Front facade, Mid-level of Left Side.
Jan. 2001  (200mm lens; composite panorama - slight perspective distortion)
2003. The mid-level of this facade is one of the most admired designs in Maya architecture and a highly original composition; composed of four two-column doorways and two narrow doorways leading to interior staircases, interspersed with colonnettes of spool-banded half columns.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
1843. Print, showing that this portion of the Great Palace was remarkably well-preserved.
Scanned from Stephens and Catherwood, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, 1843 (Vol. II, facing p. 17); closely based on Frederick Catherwood’s 1841-42 on-site drawing.
Panorama left-right no.1: showing corner mask and large, well finished corner stones.
Jan. 2001 (200mm lens)
Panorama left-right no.2: Diving God above narrow doorway to interior staircase.
Jan. 2001 (200mm lens)
Panorama left-right no.3: large variations in columns suggests substantial plaster surfacing.
Jan. 2001 (200mm lens)
Panorama left-right no.4: largest mask, in center of facade.
Jan. 2001 (200mm lens)
Panorama left-right no.5: doorway with one monolithic column and one two drum column.
Jan. 2001 (200mm lens)
Panorama left-right no.6: Diving God above narrow doorway to interior staircase.
Jan. 2001 (200mm lens)
Panorama left-right no.7: grand staircase at right impinges on facade next to last doorway.
Jan. 2001 (200mm lens)
 

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