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Best preserved section of front facade, wih doorways 2-6 from left.
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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).
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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).
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Angle view of facade area.
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Detail from extreme right,
showing varying depths of projection, and showing location
of serpent head on upper molding (cf. pre-1917 drawing at right).
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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).
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Back-to-back jaquars from
below, showing projection from wall and details on right end.
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Back-to-back jaguars with
tails entwined; the only survivor of presumably similar jaquars
below each domestic hut on the main facade.
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Possibly these back-to-back
jaquars served as a throne for one or two seated figures.
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