Explorations of the Upper Usumatsintla And Adjacent Region Altar De Sacrificos
Explorations of the Upper Usumatsintla And Adjacent Region Altar De Sacrificos
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Taking advantage day after day of the light, I slowly but surely made photographic negatives of all the available sculptured stones. I made but one architectural plan (Fig. 15), since not one facade nor a perfect interior had survived, owing to the terrible destruction of buildings by the rank, tropical vegetation which envelops everything. But between times a plan of the ruins as a whole was made, in which one by one the groups of build- MEM. PEABODT MU6BTJM IT. 11.
82 EXPLORATIONS IN GUATEMAL...A.
ings and stelae were arranged in their order. This plan, which is extremely useful in spite of unavoidable imperfections, plainly shows the exact posi- tion of each of the sculptured stones and is the basis of my description (Fig. 14).
It is not my way to photograph a piece of sculpture and then send the picture out into the world without an explanatory description, leaving every- one quite ignorant as to where it was found. The explanation should state whether the stone in question is a stela, which stood by itself, or belonged to the lower, middle, or top terrace of a monumental building ; whether the sculpture belonged to doorways or adorned the inner wall of a sanctuary ; whether it is the undersculpture of a lintel, a stone belonging to a stairway, or something else.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Taking advantage day after day of the light, I slowly but surely made photographic negatives of all the available sculptured stones. I made but one architectural plan (Fig. 15), since not one facade nor a perfect interior had survived, owing to the terrible destruction of buildings by the rank, tropical vegetation which envelops everything. But between times a plan of the ruins as a whole was made, in which one by one the groups of build- MEM. PEABODT MU6BTJM IT. 11.
82 EXPLORATIONS IN GUATEMAL...A.
ings and stelae were arranged in their order. This plan, which is extremely useful in spite of unavoidable imperfections, plainly shows the exact posi- tion of each of the sculptured stones and is the basis of my description (Fig. 14).
It is not my way to photograph a piece of sculpture and then send the picture out into the world without an explanatory description, leaving every- one quite ignorant as to where it was found. The explanation should state whether the stone in question is a stela, which stood by itself, or belonged to the lower, middle, or top terrace of a monumental building ; whether the sculpture belonged to doorways or adorned the inner wall of a sanctuary ; whether it is the undersculpture of a lintel, a stone belonging to a stairway, or something else.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Teobert Maler to read onlineMoreLess
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