Stone carving (Zoomorph P) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Special Orders

Stone carving (Zoomorph P) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Special OrdersView of a large stone carving at the ancient Maya site of Quirigua located near the banks of the Motagua river in the department of Izabal, Guatemala. The photograph shows the south face and east side of a carved stone zoomorph known by archaeologists as Zoomorph P, as it was first described by Alfred Maudslay in his seminal publication of the Quirigua site in his multi volume Archaeology (1889 1902). More recent scholarship dates the zoomorph (also

Successive dune ridges rise from the near foreground into the far distance

silk banners

The photograph was taken by John Hillers from the south side and shows the pueblo's north house cluster

Portrait of a boy of the Bani Hilal

Statues in a temple

The square building is one storey tall

spread out

Behind him a number of trees and tufts of vegetation grow in the rolling sands

In the distance rolling dunes

its bow pointing into the far distance

standing with some of his retainers

while a member of the party walks after a camel walking towards the left