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. 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. 36. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. West building. Figure of a flute blower (?), from the frieze of the southern remnants of the main facade."
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"Fig. 37. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. West building. Main facade facing
the courtyard and the east. a. The remaining head on the northern frieze remnants of one of the two serpent bodies surrounding the frieze quadrant. b. Head of the feather serpent from the damaged frieze on the southern section of the building. Now in the Museum in Merida de Yucatan."
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"Fig. 38. Piece of one of the serpent bodies showing the peg with which
it was fit into the frieze surface."
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"Fig. 39. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. West building. One of the masks of
the mask column at the northwest corner of the building (compare plate IX, 1), north side."
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"Fig. 40. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. West building. Two masks of the
column at the northern frieze remnants of the principal facade facing
the courtyard and the east, above the next-to-last door in front of the
north end (compare plate X, I)."
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"Diagram 1."
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"Diagram 2."
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"Diagram 3: a, b"
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"Diagram 3: c, d"
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"Diagram 4."
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"Diagram 5."
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