{"id":2104,"date":"2019-04-06T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2022-09-17T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T14:27:32","slug":"dovecote-uxmal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/dovecote-uxmal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dovecote in Uxmal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Dovecote in Uxmal is a building located next to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/great-pyramid-uxmal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Great Pyramid (opens in a new tab)\">Great Pyramid<\/a> towards the west that closes one side of a rectangular patio of 140m\u00b2. Despite being half-destroyed, its peculiar formation is striking, this structure has a very remarkable tall crest resembling a Dovecote, hence its name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crests are made up of nine staggered triangular units that rest on a row of around 40 niche-like pillars. There are characters carved in the surface of the crest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This cresting is known to be of a specific peninsular type from the early <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puuc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Puuc architecture (opens in a new tab)\">Puuc architecture<\/a>, dated between years 670 and 770.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remains that are still preserved allow us to suppose that the figures were supported by pedestals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one of the corners, there is a small pyramid crowned with a temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"width:100%; height:400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/360\/uxmal\/dovecote-uxmal.html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Dovecote Group in Uxmal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dovecote Group is located southwest of the Cemetery and Quadrangles of both the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Nunnery (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/nunnery-quadrangle-in-uxmal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nunnery<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Birds (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/quadrangle-of-the-birds-in-uxmal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Birds<\/a>. This is another of the sets, or groups that are part of the buildings assembled in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Uxmal (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/uxmal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uxmal<\/a> in the same geometric arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The construction must have been part of a residential complex that had a roof at the western end of the complex and a pyramid with a sanctuary at the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Dovecote location in Uxmal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dovecote in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Uxmal (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/uxmal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uxmal<\/a> is located right next to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Great Pyramid (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/great-pyramid-uxmal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Great Pyramid<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=12HPUPUN41ydKx9bIs4Zk4QRZ3yU8GEap\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dovecote in Uxmal is a building located next to the Great Pyramid towards the west that closes one side of a rectangular patio of 140m\u00b2. Despite being half-destroyed, its peculiar formation is striking, this structure has a very remarkable tall crest resembling a Dovecote, hence its name. The crests are made up of nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uxmal-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4441,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/4441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanpeninsula.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}