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Lowering sculptured blocks from hieroglyphic stairway
Lowering sculptured blocks from hieroglyphic stairway
Object Number 2004.1.381.1.384
Display Title Lowering sculptured blocks from hieroglyphic stairway
Descriptions
Object Description Copan Album: Volume 9, Page 10; Written on page: "Lowering sculptured blocks from hieroglyphic stairway"
Subject
  • Rubble
  • Stairway
  • Glyph
Department Photographic
Date 1891 - 1901
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Honduras / Copan / <County> / Copan / Copan
Materials Albumen print adhered to Paper in Album
Dimensions Overall: 19.685 × 15.5575 cm (7 3/4 × 6 1/8 in.)

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