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Title: The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ious andcomfortable house. The church adjoining it is also constructedwith the material taken from the ancient palace. Below, to the left, is a truncated pyramid, built with adobes,ascended by a stone staircase, having a Christian chapel on itssummit. The Spaniards cleared it so completely of the ancienttemple that no trace remains. The great palace, the walls ofwhich are still entire, consists of a vast edifice in the shape ofa Tau; the main fa9ade faces south, and is the best preservedof all the monuments at Mitla, measuring 130 feet, with anapartment corresponding to it of the same dimensions, and sixmonolith columns which supported the roof now fallen in. Threelarge doorways gave access to the apartment, having a pavementcovered with cement. ;o2 The Ancient Cities of the New World. Both Torquemada and Clavigero, who wrote of thesemonuments from hearsay, erroneously ascribe 30 feet and 80 feetrespectively to these columns. The only entrance to the inner court on the right, which is
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PLAN OF CHIEF PALACE OF MITLA. also cemented, is through a dark narrow passage, having thewalls and the main facade covered with mosaic work in panels,framed with stones. The court is square, and opens into fournarrow long apartments covered from top to bottom with mosaicwork in relief, arranged in varied parallel bands, extending tothe roof. The lintels over the doorways were formed of huge TuMiiALA. S. Cristobal. Mitla. o^o J blocks of stone from i6 feet to i8 feet. We give a ground planof the palace, and a cut of the great hall or apartment, together

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  • bookyear:1887
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Charnay__D__sir____1828_1915
  • booksubject:Indians_of_Mexico
  • booksubject:Indians_of_Central_America
  • bookpublisher:London___Chapman_and_Hall
  • bookcontributor:Getty_Research_Institute
  • booksponsor:Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:539
  • bookcollection:getty
  • bookcollection:americana
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