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Great Palace

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Main (South) Facade

Official INAH plaque; there were 94 rooms, the largest number for any Maya palace.
Jan. 2003
Detail of plaque at left; drawing of central mask and of serpents flanking diving god on main facade.
Jan. 2003
Detail of plaque at far left; reconstruction drawing of central portion of main facade.
Jan. 2003
Description in Spanish.
Jan. 2003
Description in Yucatec Mayan.
Jan. 2003
Description in English.
Jan. 2003
Front (south) facade from south-west, left half well preserved. The Great Palace was restored 1953-1962.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Front (south) facade from south, with central staircase; both left and right halves recede slightly toward the sides.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Front (south) facade from south-east, right half largely in ruins, only facade of lowest level restored.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
 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.

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.

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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