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Nunnery South


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Entry Archway

Front and back doorways of House of Turtles, aligned slightly to the right of South and North Buildings centers.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
A perfectly centered photograph would show that the Ballcourt is just slightly off axis with central archway through South Building.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
South facade was explored and consolidated 1937-38. Facade and room at left of archway section largely reconstructed from fallen stones; entire frieze left largely unrestoration.
Jan. 2001
Grand axis leading to the archway in South Building, the ceremonial entrance to Nunnery Quadrangle.
Date
Showing vaulted surfaces and width of capstone, all largely intact.
Jan. 2001
Showing shape of opening to interior courtyard.
Jan. 2001
1923. Visitors under cover of entry archway; impressive survival of original facing stones.
Photograph taken Feb. 16, 1923 by Marshall H. Saville. This image scanned from slide taken of original photo; reproduced Courtesy of The Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History.
2003. Looking from courtyard out through vaulted passageway past Ballcourt, to Turtles and Governor's Palace.
Jan. 2003
Close-up of outside of archway, showing that, in spite of the simplicity of the opening, it is conceived of as part of a grand entry.
Jan. 2001
 

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