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Looking north, from Ballcourt area, past staircases and terraces to entry archway of South Building, on axis.
Jan. 2001
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On the same axis with the center of the archway of South Building. The doorway seen through the center of the portal is not the central doorway of the North Building.
Jan. 2001 |
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On the same axis to center of archway through
center of South Building, from bottom of upper staircase.
Jan. 2001 |
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Upper staircase restored
1986-87: some riser stones in place; purposely not fully reconstructed.
Jan. 2001 |
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1844. Detail of print. Although most of the south facade eventually fell, this print from an on-site 1841-42 drawing by Catherwood suggests that the south facade was originally similar to the north facade.
Detail of print published in Catherwood, Views
of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan,
1844; closely based on Catherwood's 1839-42 on-site drawing. |
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1930. Photograph from the Great Pyramid, show much of the south facade collapsed.
Photogtaph by Dan Leyrer as member of Blom/Tulane expedition, 1930 (31.4.476). Scanned from 35mm slide of the original photograph. Reproduced with permission of the Middle American Research Institute (MARI), Tulane University. |
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Looking west down entire
front facade; the South Building is different
from the north, east and west buildings in that it has doorways
on the outside as well as inside facade.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens) |
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2002. Only a few details have survived
from the largely collapsed upper level; the room to left of
archway entirely reconstructed (cf. 1930 photo at right).
Jan. 2002 |
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1930. Photograph showing major collapse of area at left of entry archway.
Photogtaph by Dan Leyrer as member of Blom/Tulane expedition, 1930. Scanned from 35mm slide of the original photograph. Reproduced with permission of the Middle American Research Institute (MARI), Tulane University |
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