Building J ("The Observatory")

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Creator Unknown -- Builder -- Zapotec
Title Building J ("The Observatory")
Spatial Coverage Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico
Description Interior, arched passage.
Work Dates ca. 200 BCE-300 CE
Century -3, -2, -1, 1, 2, 3, 4
Style Period Pre-Columbian, Zapotec (Oaxacan, Mesoamerican); Pre-Columbian, Classic (Mesoamerican)
Culture Zapotec; Mesoamerican
Subject Research structures -- Research buildings -- Observatories; Architectural elements -- Arches -- Corbel arches
Image Source Peter Goss.
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
Contributing Institution University of Utah
CA+P Accession No. F01 ARCH-29860
Format image/jpeg
Type Image
Digitization Specifications Scanned with a Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG.
ARK ark:/87278/s65142cp
Setname uu_cap_coa
ID 88928
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65142cp