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Front facade and north end,
on top of Governor's Palace Platform with grand staircase;
recognized as a structure "of incomparable nobility and
balance" (Gendrop, p.198).
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens) |
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Front facade from Pyramid of the Old Woman.
date (200mm lens) |
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Showing distinctions among
the many horizontal layers, with subtle refinements; upper
walls have slight negative batter.
Jan. 2001 |
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1999. Right (north) section of frieze,
front facade, part of a highly complex but rigorously organzed
design, tieing the 2 wings to the central structure (cf. corner
diagram at right and frieze diagram at far right).
Nov. 1999 |
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1917. Diagram of left corner;
at top the cornice with guilloche running along center, stack
of 5 corner masks, 3 part medial molding, plain lower wall,
and 3 part basal molding in which short colonnettes alternative
with plain panels along center.
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 107); print closely based on Seler’s on-site drawing. |
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1917. Diagram of same frieze, showing pattern of masks, locations of sitting figures, double G frets, and latticework
background (cf. photo far left).
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 113); print closely based on Seler’s on-site drawing. |
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