Architecture, Restoration, and Imaging of the Maya Cities of Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, and Labná
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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: Verlag 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. Scanned 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. 12. Uxmal. The 'nameless hill'. Lower of the two summit terraces. Remnants of the mask column at the northwest corner."
1917
"Fig. 13. Uxmal. The 'nameless hill'. Lower of the two summit terraces.
Snout from the mask column on the northwest corner and a different
smaller snout found at the same place. (They are drawn upside down, the upward bent snout ends downward, just as they now lie on the ground.)"
1917
"Fig. 14. Uxmal. The 'nameless hill'. Lower of the two summit terraces.
Remnants of the mask column on the southeast corner."
1917
"Fig. 15. Uxmal. The 'nameless hill'. Higher of the two summit terraces.
Remnants of a mask on the southeast corner."
1917

"Fig. 16a. Uxmal House of the Nuns. South building. Ground plan of the middle section of the east wing. Fig. 16b. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. South building. Postholes."
1917
"Fig. 17. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. South building. Frieze decoration
(feather roof house and rain god mask)."
1917
"Fig. 18. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. South building. Decoration on the
middle section of the entablature."
1917
"Fig. 19. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. East building."
1917
"Fig. 20. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. East building.
a. Postholes in the vault sides of the large middle room,
b. in the vault sides of the side room,
c. in the vault sides of the room next to the large middle room.
Fig. 20d. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. Sketch of the east building’s wall. top molding, frieze, girdle molding, wall surface, foundation."
1917
"Fig. 21. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. East building. Rosettes on the third
section of the upper concluding entablature."
1917
"Fig. 22. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. East building. North side of the mask column at the northwest corner of the frieze."
1917
"Fig. 23. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. East building. South side of the
lowest two masks of the mask column at the southwest corner of the frieze."
1917
 

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