Tohcok
Tohcock , also spelled Tohkok, is a small Mayan ruins in Mexico . It is located on the Yucatán peninsula in the state of Campeche , around 4.2 kilometers northwest of Hopelchen . The site was cut through the construction of the current federal highway 261 and has since been partially restored.
Main group
Building I, cut off by the road construction, was a complex building with three rows of rooms, two of which were open to the southeast and one in the opposite direction. The rows were interrupted by a central staircase that led to a second floor, halfway up, from a later phase of construction with two rooms. The extreme southern part of the building was destroyed by road construction. The best preserved room on the east side had an entrance with two pillars. The building is assigned to the mixed style Chenes-Puuc, as it combines the peculiarities of both styles, for example the horizontally structured facade on the east side. Another building with four rooms, which is at right angles to the first and is badly damaged, shows the typical Chenes-style arrangement of a single room behind the middle room of the front row. A painted door jamb shows the date 12 do 2 ahaw, the conversion of which (in a realistic time frame) was June 16, 743 (Julian ) results.
Hill group
On a low hill southeast of the main group is a badly damaged building with probably six rooms facing east.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ George F. Andrews: Pyramids and palaces, monsters and masks . Lancaster, CA, Labyrithos 1997.
- ^ Daniel Graña Behrens: The Maya inscriptions from Northwest Yucatan, Mexico . Suedwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften 2009, ISBN 978-3838107165
Coordinates: 19 ° 46 ′ 13 ″ N , 89 ° 52 ′ 31 ″ W.