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Official INAH plaque; there were 94 rooms, the largest number for any Maya palace.
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Detail of plaque at left;
drawing of central mask and of serpents flanking diving god
on main facade.
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Detail of plaque at far left;
reconstruction drawing of central portion of main facade.
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Description in Spanish.
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Description in Yucatec Mayan.
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Description in English.
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Front (south) facade from south-west, left half well preserved. The Great Palace was restored 1953-1962.
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Front (south) facade from
south, with central staircase; both left and right halves
recede slightly toward the sides.
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Front (south) facade from
south-east, right half largely in ruins, only facade of lowest
level restored.
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1946. Scholarly reconstruction of how Great Palace might have looked before partial collapse.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff,
1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed (Peabody 50-63-20/18501). Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. |
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Detail of drawing at left; showing short third flight of stairs with wide side walls, and projecting central room on third level.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff,
1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed. Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
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1975. "Sayil--the palace (restoration)."
Scanned from George F. Andrews, Maya Cities, Placemaking and Urbanization, 1975, p.365. Reproduced with permission of the University of Oklahoma Press. |
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