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1917 Seler

All the illustrations of line drawings of Uxmal in Eduard Seler's monumental study, "Die Ruinen von Uxmal," published in Abhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Nr. 3. Berlin: Varlag der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1917. The more elaborate drawings are signed by Wilhelm von den Steinem and most of the other drawings are consistent with his hand; based on on-site drawings by Seler and other material. I have scanned these images from the copy in the University of Rochester Library, with appreciation. On this web site, the captions are literal translations of the German caption.



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"Fig. 83a Uxmal. House of the Magician. Ground floor. Mask in the frieze in the middle of the facade (above the door E)."
1917
"Fig. 83b Uxmal. House of the Magician. Ground floor. Snout of the mask in the frieze in the middle of the facade (above the door E). Drawing from a casting."
1917
"Fig. 84a. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Ground floor. Stone head “The Woman” under the mask that is attached to the frieze in the middle of the facade connecting to the snake-rattle-cylinder, to the fourth section of the girder molding."
1917
"Fig. 84b. Uxmal. Tattooing or ornamental scarring on the right cheek of the 'Woman'."
1917
"Fig. 86. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Ground floor. Detached facade piece. Cornice of one of the mask columns of the frieze?"
1917
"Fig. 87a. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Ground plan and construction of the bulding on the current summit area that is now found at half its original elevation."
1917
"Fig . 87b. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Old summit building. Post holes."
1917
"Fig. 88. Uxmal. House of the Magician. South front. The foremost of the two rooms or buildings on the current top surface that is now found at half its original height."
1917
"Fig. 89. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Structure now found in half height old Gipfelflaeche.
a. One of masks of the mask column on the southwest edge of the main wall surface (under the girder molding).
b. Bas-relief on the main wall surface of the south front, two intertwined snakes that are part of the two highest masks on the south west edge of the main wall surface."
1917
"Fig. 92. Uxmal. House of the Magician. The old summit building. One of the masks of the mask column on the frieze of the north wall."
1917
"Fig. 93. Uxmal. House of the Magician. The old summit structure. Side extension (bas-relief) of the masks of the mask columns on the edges of the frieze."
1917
"Fig. 94. Uxmal. House of the Magician. The old summit building. Westward oriented main facade. Drawn by Wilhelm von den Steinen from the notes of Teobert Maler and Caecilie Seler and drawings by the author."
1917
 

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