Paintings Complex

This group of buildings in Cobá mostly dates to the city’s last period of occupation. Building I has an upper temple whose frieze and lintel were richly painted on their interior side, and it also had a stele. Structure III probably had a roof made of perishable materials, and thirteen small altars in front of it suggest the ritual character of the complex. Two other stelae, numbered 26 and 28, stand in their respective sanctuaries at the extremes of the complex. The architecture belongs to the east coast style of the Post-Classic period, 1100-1450 A.D.

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