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Roofcombs


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Sayil
Pyramid Temple (El Mirador)

Front of main (south) facade, showing surviving south-west room, with its central doors front and back.
photo Jan. 2001
Front facade of roofcomb, showing narrow openings and projecting tenons, which held stucco figures, remains of which have been found in the debris.
photo Jan. 2001
1995. "Sayil, Structure 3B2: north facade (restored)" (appears to be the south facade).
Scanned from George F. Andrews, Pyramids and Palace, Monsters and Masks; Vol. 1, Architecture of the Puuc Regions and the Northern Plains Area, 1995, p.32. Reproduced with permission of Labyrinthos, publishers.
 Main (south) facade (facing left in this photo); front of roofcomb with protruding tenons for stucco figures.
photo Jan. 2001
Looking up to east end of roofcomb in profile (foreshortened because photographed from below); showing narrow depth and miraculous survival.
photo Jan. 2001
 Detail of official INAH plaque; vertical cross section (in this drawing, the front, south, facade faces right).
photo Jan. 2001
1930. Back (north) side, showing roofcomb over medial wall.
Photograph by Dan Leyrer as member of the Blom/Tulane expedition, 1930. Scanned from 35mm slide of the original photograph (M.31.7.59). Reproduced with permission of the Middle American Research Institute (MARI), Tulane University.
2002. Same as 1930 photo at left; the back room (toward the camera) has collapsed except for a bit of end wall; roofcomb stands on wall between front and back rooms.
photo Jan. 2002
 Detail of INAH plaque with description in English.
photo Jan. 2001
 

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