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. 72a, b. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Main facade (south front). Serpent heads attached to the middle section of the frieze-upper-ledge of the concluding main ledge/molding."
1917

"Fig. 73. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Front side (south front). Mask attached to the frieze-upper-ledge above door 4.
a. Current state of preservation.
b. Completed from a photograph by Desire Charnay."
1917
"Fig. 74. Uxmal. The two Houses of the Parrots."
1917
"Fig. 75e. Uxmal. House of the Parrots. Structure of the facade of the back wall and of the side room."
1917
"Fig. 76. Uxmal. Southern of the two Houses of the Parrots. Northern exterior of the protruding single room in the middle of the east facade."
1917
"Fig. 77. Uxmal. Ground floor. Ground plan reconstructed. (The fully removed pieces of wall remain and are observable; they are completely destroyed or buried beneath the rubble.)"
1917
"Fig. 78a. Uxmal. Groundfloor. West front. The lowest section of the frieze-lower-ledge, from the northern doorpost of room D across the bridging of the facade right inside the resulting tunnel. (Drawn from a casting by Wilhelm von den Steinen.)"
1917
"Fig. 78a. Uxmal. Groundfloor. West front. The lowest section of the frieze-lower-ledge, from the northern doorpost of room D across the bridging of the facade right inside the resulting tunnel. (Drawn from a casting by Wilhelm von den Steinen.)"
1917
"Fig. 79. Uxmal. House of the Magician. Ground floor. Featherband on the fifth (highest) section of the surrounding ledge (frieze-lower-ledge)."
1917
"Fig. 80. Uxmal. Groundfloor. Featherband of a larger size. Fragment of a section of the frieze-upper-ledge or concluding main ledge (?)."
1917
"Fig. 81 Uxmal. House of the Magician.. Itzcouatl- zigzag-lattice pattern from the frieze of the ground floor."
1917
"Fig. 82 Uxmal. House of the Magician. Ground floor. Remnants of the mask column on the frieze piece south of the bridging (door F)."
1917
 

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