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Nunnery East


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South End

1843. Print. "South East Angle of Monjas, Uxmal."
Scanned from Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, 1843; closely based on Catherwood’s 1841-42 on-site drawing.
2001. Same corner mask stack as in print at left, relatively well preserved, though upper portion missing and impressive snouts broken off.
Jan. 2001
Detail of upper level of east facade, showing archaeologists' identification markings of stones; a, b, etc. from bottom up, 1, 2, etc. from left to right.
Jan. 2001
1859-60/1862; later copy photo. Earliest photo of the south end of the East Building.
Taken by Desiré Charnay 1859-60, mounted in the folio volume of Cités et ruines américaines, Vol. 1, Paris, 1862. Scanned from a 35mm slide taken of the contrasty copy photograph in the volume at the AMNH (RF-106-D). Reproduced Courtesy of The Library, Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History.
Showing deterioration of south end; restoration underway.
Nov. 1999
2001. South end showing large, central lattice panel. corner maskstacks.
Jan. 2001
1917. Print. "Fig. 23. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. East building. South side of the
lowest two masks of the mask column at the southwest corner of the frieze."
Scanned from Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 23).
1999. These are the only 2 snouts currently on East Building; these snouts turning upward. Serpent's head tenoned into cornice corner.
Nov. 1999
Passage between south building, on left, and end of east buildings; looking into courtyard.
Jan. 2001
"Quadrangle of the Nuns, Uxmal, Yucatán." (south end and back facade of East Building).
Early 20th c. photograph; scanned from slide taken from original photo; reproduced Courtesy of The Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History.
Comparison of well preserved East Building at left and largely reconstructed Quadrangle of the Birds at right (cf. fitting of facade stones; archaeologists deliberately avoid imitating original appearance).
Jan. 2001
Looking south between backof Nunnery Annex, at left, and back of Nunnery East Building, at right, to end of House of the Birds.
Jan. 2001
 

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