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Nunnery North


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Domestic Hut over Fifth Door from Left

Best preserved section of front facade, wih doorways 2-6 from left.
Jan. 2001

1917. Domestic hut above doorway 5 (incorrectly identified as doorway 6 in Seler's caption). "Fig. 69. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Main facade (south front). Frieze decoration above door 6, alternating with the mask columns."
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 69).

2001. Domestic hut with recessed doorway, detailed palm roof and two header serpents above; Tlaloc mask in cornice; two jaquars with intertwined tails below doorway (cf. pre-1917 drawing at left).
Jan. 2001
Angle view of facade area.
Jan. 2001
Detail from extreme right, showing varying depths of projection, and showing location of serpent head on upper molding (cf. pre-1917 drawing at right).
Jan. 2003
 1917. "Fig. 72a, b. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Main facade (south front). Serpent heads attached to the middle section of the frieze-upper-ledge of the concluding main ledge/molding."
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 72a, b).
Back-to-back jaquars from below, showing projection from wall and details on right end.
Jan. 2003
Back-to-back jaguars with tails entwined; the only survivor of presumably similar jaquars below each domestic hut on the main facade.
Jan. 2001
Possibly these back-to-back jaquars served as a throne for one or two seated figures.
Jan. 2001
 

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