洪都拉斯科潘遗址8N-11号贵族居址北侧晚期建筑

The Architectural Remains of the Later Period to the North of the Elite Compound Site 8N-11 at Copan Site in Honduras

8N-11号贵族居址是科潘遗址除王宫以外的最高等级建筑,主体是一处封闭的方形院落,四面为石砌高台建筑。对院落北侧建筑的发掘表明,科潘王国晚期,北侧建筑由中部有两层台基的主建筑和东、西两侧附属建筑组成。中部台基的13组墨西哥纪年和交叉火炬雕刻,说明此贵族家庭与王室有密切联系。

The Copan Site in Honduras is a famous city state of the Maya Civilization. The Site 8N- 11 at Copan Site is the highest-ranking architecture of this site except for the royal palace. The main body of this residential site is an enclosed square courtyard, the four sides of which are all stone-built high-terrace architecture. The overall excavation to the architecture on the north side of the courtyard in 2015 revealed that in the later period of the Copan Kingdom, the architecture on the north side of this courtyard consisted of the main body in the middle with two tiers of terraces and the subsidiary structures on its east and west sides. The sculptures of the 13 sets of Mexican year signs and crossed torches on the terrace of the main architecture showed that this aristocrat family had close relationship with the royal family. In addition, the large amounts of garbage abandoned by the new residents after the declining of this aristocrat family are significantly valuable for the exploration of the process and reasons of the declining of the Copan Kingdom.