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Interior Rooms

1917. Print. "Fig. 19. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. East building." ( each of the five outer doorways leads to an outer room with inner room behind; but central rooms are unique in that both their outer and inner rooms also have small shrine rooms at each end).
Scanned from Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 19).
1843. Print. Vol.I, facing p.308: "East Building, Casa de las Monjas, Uxmal, Room inside Central Doorway" (outside doorway at left, doorway to back room at right; doorway to a small side room in end wall).
Scanned from Stephens and Catherwood, Incidents of Travel in Yuctan, 1843; closely based on Frederick Catherwood's 1841-42 on-site drawings.

 

2003. Same view as in 1847 print at left. The relatively straight vault shape is unusualy for Puuc interiors, but common in Nunnery buildings.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash; in this photo the verticals have not been artificially straightened as has been done in the print at left).
Central front room, large doorway to backroom at left, showing recent restoration of jambs and lintels.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash)
Detail of new lintels seen in photo at left.
Jan. 2001
"Fig. 40. Veneer-over-concrete construction: (a) Uxmal, East Building, Nunnery Quadrangle".
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. 337.  Reproduced with permission of Labyrinthos, publishers.
Large central back room; doorway into front room at left, looking north to endwall with doorway into small side room.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash)
Same central back room; doorway into front room at right, looking south to endwall with doorway small side room.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash)
Second room from left, looking vertically into vault.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash)
Second room from left, showing upper portion of end wall and vaults, with capstones.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash)
Second room from left, showing crosspole with its ends in wall depressions; below seem to be circular airvents filled in with lime concrete to discourage bats and swallows.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash)
Detail of area seen in photo at left.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens, flash)
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