Huntichmul II
Huntichmul II is a small Maya ruin site in the Mexican state of Campeche . It belongs to the small group of insufficiently known sites in the border area between Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo . The site was first visited by Teobert Maler in 1894 and described in detail. A later and apparently last visit was made in 1986 by an international group. The place is about 25 to 30 km north-northeast of Xmabén, the exact location of the site has not been determined, further investigations and excavations have not yet taken place.
The most important and probably the only standing structure is a building described by the painter as a wall temple. It consists of a thick wall that ends up in two small pseudo-buildings with no interior space, between which there is a slightly lower platform. Inside the thick wall there are two rows of three rooms each. Access to the lower row was through a low, stepped passage from rooms on the front that had largely fallen apart in the painter's time. There was apparently no original access to the upper row of the rooms. The masonry is characteristic of the region and is made of roughly hewn stones; instead of the mortar, a mixture of earth was used. The usual stucco coating of the walls is also missing. The entire building stands on a platform, from which, according to painter's interpretation, a staircase on either side led up to the small platform between the towers.
Although more detailed studies are lacking, a stylistic connection to the Rio Bec style is clear.
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- ^ Teobert painter : Península Yucatán . Ed. Hanns J. Prem . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-7861-1755-1 . Pp. 252-255
- ↑ Ursula Dyckerhoff , Hanns J. Prem et al .: Relocalización de Huntichmul II . In: Cuadernos de Arquitectura Mesoamericana 10 (1987) ISSN 0185-5131 . Pp. 84-92