Dzibilnocac

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Building 1

Dzibilnocac , also Dsibilnocac (the name means "painted vault") is a medium-sized Mayan ruins in Mexico . It is located on the Yucatán peninsula in the state of Campeche , 31 kilometers southeast of Hopelchén . It is located on the eastern outskirts of the modern settlement Iturbide, which emerged from a garrison against the rebellious Maya in the mid-19th century.

Research history

The eastern temple
Vaulted capstone

The first short report is from 1841 by John Lloyd Stephens accompanied by Frederick Catherwood . and also contains a very inaccurate view drawing. The following visitor in 1887 was Teobert Maler , who dedicated himself exclusively to Building 1, as was Eduard Seler two and a half decades later . A more detailed report is based on research by Harry ED Pollock around 1936 . A comprehensive study of the pottery by the New World Archaeological Foundation in 1968 contains a good map and information on structural remains. After 1980 excavations and restorations were carried out on the eastern part of Building 1 under the direction of Ramón Carrasco Vargas.

Building 1

This building, located near the outskirts of Iturbide (the coordinates refer to this building), has been relatively well preserved and partially restored in contrast to all others. It consists of two parallel rows of rooms that open to the north and south. The arrangement is symmetrical, the eastern and western parts each comprise four large, east-west oriented rooms, with a narrow entrance leading from the rear of the center to a north-south oriented chamber. Two painted capstones were preserved in them, but they have since been torn out and ended up in the international art trade. The components collide on the outside of these parallel chambers, so that the complex has a total of ten rooms. The facades are - as far as they are preserved - kept simple; In keeping with the Chenes style , indentations that correspond to the partition walls of the rooms create the impression of separate buildings. The entrances to the rooms in the middle of the building on the north side had a central column. At the ends of the entire building and above the chambers at their connection, pyramid-like towers were later erected, with square, two-room buildings at the top. The opposite entrances are designed as a snake mouth. The entire wall surface is covered with curlicues and volutes . The sides of the square buildings, on which there are no doors, are designed as shallow false doors and similarly ornamented. The building, which is assigned to the 6th to 8th centuries, largely resembles the southern building of Hochob .

See also

Web links

Commons : Dzibilnocac  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John L. Stephens: Incidents of travel in Yucatan . Dover Publications, New York 1963, ISBN 0-486-20926-1 . Vol. 2, pp. 121, 125.
  2. ^ Teobert painter : Península Yucatán . Ed. Hanns J. Prem . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-7861-1755-1 . Pp. 112-115.
  3. ^ Eduard Seler: The Quetzalcouatl facades of Yucatecian buildings. Treatises of the Royal. Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1916, pp. 47–59.
  4. ↑ Harry ED Pollock : Architectural notes on some Chenes ruins. Papers of the Peabody Museums of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 61, Part 1. Cambridge, MA 1970. pp. 25-35.
  5. ^ Fred W. Nelson: Archaeological Investigations at Dzibilnocac, Campeche, Mexico New World Archaeological Foundation, Paper 33, Bigham Young University, Provo 1973.

Coordinates: 19 ° 34 ′ 41 ″  N , 89 ° 35 ′ 40 ″  W.