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Looking southeast to early
Chenes Temples, mostly buried by fill for Great Platform behind;
showing entrance to outer vaulted room with surviving end
and doorway to inner-back room.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens) |
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Detail of area in photo at
left; showing left section of partially surviving zoomorphic
doorway.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens) |
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1995. "Uxmal, Chenes Building No. 1: (a) mask around central doorway; (b) plan." (cf. photos below-left).
Scanned from George F. Andrews, Pyramids and Palace, Monsters and Masks; Vol. 1, Architecture of the Puuc Regions and the Northern Plains Area, 1995, p. 273. Reproduced with permission of Labyrinthos, publishers. |
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2002. Left section of Chenes style
monster mouth, showing most richly ornamented surviving area (cf. reconstruction drawing above-right).
Jan. 2002 |
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Left section of Chenes style
monster mouth showing leg at left of doorway with right angle
bend at knee.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens) |
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Angle view showing 3-dimensional
form.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens) |
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Angle view of foreleg at
left of doorway, showing rare surviving plaster covering (cf.
details at right).
Jan. 2002 |
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Detail of knee in photo at
left; rare example of surviving plaster covering stone sculpture,
also showing lack of finish to stone within.
Jan. 2003 |
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Detail of band around calf
in photo at far left; making less use of carefully sculpted
stone and more extensive use of stucco for final form.
Jan. 2003 |
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Leg at left of doorway, with
right angle bend at knee.
Jan. 2002 |
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Detail of area in photo at left,
showing incised design of simple crossing horizontals and
verticals, and some surviving plaster covering.
Jan. 2003 |
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1917. "Fig. 6. Uxmal. A section of the front of both buildings at the west base of the terrace of the House of Tortoises."
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal”, 1917; closely based on Seler’s on-site drawing. |
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