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Pyramid Temple (El Mirador)
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Official INAH plaque; this area is thought to have been a marketplace.
Jan. 2001
Detail of plaque at left; drawing of front facade and roofcomb.
Jan. 2001
Detail of plaque at far-left; vertical cross section (in this drawing, the front, south, facade faces right).
Jan. 2001
Detail of INAH plaque in photo above. Description in Spanish.
Jan. 2002
Detail of INAH plaque in photo above-left. Description in Yucatec Mayan.
Jan. 2002
Detail of INAH plaque in photo above-far-left. Description in English.
Jan. 2001
"Sayil, Structure 3B2: north facade (restored)."
Scanned from George F. Andrews, Pyramids and Palace, Monsters and Masks; Vol. 1, Architecture of the Puuc Regions and the Northern Plains Area, 1995, p.32.  Reproduced with permission of Labyrinthos, publishers.
Main (south) facade, facing left in this photo; front of roofcomb with protruding tenons for stucco figures; facing stones of front facade embedded in concrete-rubble core.
Jan. 2001
Looking up to east end of roofcomb in profile (foreshortened in this photo).
Jan. 2001
Front of main (south) facade of surviving south-west room, with its central doors front and back.
Jan. 2001
Front facade of roofcomb, showing narrow openings and projecting tenons, which held stucco figures, remains of which have been found in the debris.
Jan. 2001
Front (south) facade of surviving south-west room, with concrete-rubble core.
Jan. 2001
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