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Edzná: Plan of the Late Classic Maya site center
Edzná: Plan of the site center (Athena Review Image Archive).
The larger, restored structures at Edzná are clustered in the site center around the Great Plaza, the ceremonial focus of the Late Classic Maya site. As shown in this plan (after G. Andrews 1984), the 160 x 100 meter open space of the plaza is surrounded by several building groups.
Rising 6.5 m above the east side of the Great Plaza is the 150
meter square platform of the Great Acropolis. Approached by a monumental
stone stairway flanked by the Northwest and Southwest Temples, the
structures on the Acropolis are dominated by the Five-Level Pyramid,
showing two distinct building phases. Adjoining it is the House of the
Moon, an 8 meter-high platform mound whose temple on top consists of a long
chamber and two small side rooms, possibly priest’s quarters.
To
the south, the Small Acropolis (91 by 76 meters) contains the Temple of the
Stelae and the Temple of the Old Woman. West of the Great Plaza and
approached by a sacbe is the Nohol Na, a 120 meter-long palace structure
with an unrestored façade, and the Platform of the Knives, with an
elite residence and possible ballcourt. The many outlying residential
mound groups at Edzná are mainly unexcavated and uncleared with little
visible impact, but represent important earlier components dating from
the Late Preclassic, when Edzná first became a large site in the
Campeche lowlands.
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