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Interior Rooms


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Nunnery, North Building, Uxmal

 Building at left of grand staircase, known as "The Temple of Venus", front room; looking west, showing all 4 square piers. Main shafts are not carved on sides or back.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Same front room, looking opposite direction mostly reconstructed from collapsed stones.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)

Detail of west end seen in photo at far left, showing slender wooden rods, crossbeams, fitted into circular depressions in vault.
Jan. 2001

3 views of west end of same room; note depressions for holding ends of slender wooden rods, crossbeams.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Looking west down center of room, showing characteristic symmetrical vault.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
 Looking west, showing two of three doorways to back rooms.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Best preserved (lower half) portion of painted capstone in inner-back room of Building Y, at right of grand staircase. This capstone includes a glyph for Lord B or Chak, and a date probably comparable to A.D. 9 Aug. 907.
Jan. 2002
The 3 photos in this row show details of the interior of the building at right (east) of grand staircase. Back wall of inner room, showing circular depressions to hold ends of wooden rods.
Jan. 2002
 Front wall of inner room, showing circular air vents or wooden rod holders.
Jan. 2002
 

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