Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . SELEK] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT VI pillars similarly painted, therefore probably of the same material,traverse the room. This corresponds exactly to what Juan Bautistade Pomar tell us of Nezahualcoyotls palace at Tezcuco. He saysthat the buildings stood on raised terraces. The principal room wasa hall over 20 ells in length and breadth. In the interior weremany wooden pillars ^standing at intervals on stone bases, the pil-lars in their turn supporting the beams and joists: Son sobreterraplenos de un estado, lo
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . SELEK] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT VI pillars similarly painted, therefore probably of the same material,traverse the room. This corresponds exactly to what Juan Bautistade Pomar tell us of Nezahualcoyotls palace at Tezcuco. He saysthat the buildings stood on raised terraces. The principal room wasa hall over 20 ells in length and breadth. In the interior weremany wooden pillars ^standing at intervals on stone bases, the pil-lars in their turn supporting the beams and joists: Son sobreterraplenos de un estado, lo que menos de cinco, li seis el que principales aposentos que tenian eran unas salas de veinte brazasy mas de largo, y otras tantas en ancho, porque eran cuadrados, yen medio dellos muchos pilares de madera de trecho a trecho,sobre grandes brazas de piedra sobre las quales ponian las madresen que cargaba la demas madera ( They stand on terraces of oneheight, five or six. The principal apartments were halls more than 20ells in length and of w4dth as great, because
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