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Nunnery Annex


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Large Vaulted Inner Room

Looking from collapsed front room to doorway into well preserved back room.
Jan. 2002
Inner back room looking north; doorway from outer room at right.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash)
Closer-up view seen in photo at left; vault shape concave as in most Puuc interiors.
Jan. 2002 (flash)
Upper section of opposite (south) end of same room; characteristic distinction of construction units.
Jan. 2002 (flash)
1930 wide-angle photograph of same back room; looking north with doorway at right.
Photograph by Dan Leyrer as member of Blom/Tulane expedition, 1930. Scanned from 35mm slide of the original photograph (M.31.4.315). Reproduced with permission of the Middle American Research Institute (MARI), Tulane University.
Back of photograph at left, with inscription.
Back of photograph by Dan Leyrer as member of Blom/Tulane expedition, 1930. Scanned from 35mm slide of the back of the original photograph (M.31.4.330). Reproduced with permission of the Middle American Research Institute (MARI), Tulane University.
One of the widest interior room constructed by the Maya, slightly wider than the central room of the Governor's Palace, which however is taller.
Jan. 2002 (flash)
Corner of room seen in photo at left; holes probably for air vent and crossrod.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash)
Wall above doorway to collapsed outer room.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash)
 
 
 
 

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