small excavations at base level, terrace 2 level, and terrace 6 level. Although presented in broken line in Fig. 6, plan details are reasonably well known (the solid lines provided by excavations are too short to appear at the Fig. 6 scale). There are seven terraces, each with inset corners. North and S sides have side outsets and an extra outset intervening between the inset corner and the side outset. On the rear facade, a comparable arrangement is established by the rear axial outset, extra outsets, and the corner inset. The front stair balances the rear axial outset and stair-side outsets balance the extra side and rear outsets.
North and S rear corners could be regarded as double inset corners. Front corners cannot be seen this way because stair-side outsets are not terrace outsets, and they have different profiles (Fig. 8a,b). This distinction may relate to some sort of significance associated with the stair. This is the only subcomponent rising more than one terrace in height, and it extends to full height, base to top. Side and rear outsets are all contained within terrace levels.
A cross pattern, apparent in the plan diagram (Fig. 6), is formed by the stair, side outsets, and rear outset. With the pyramid still obscured by vegetation and not consolidated, this figure is not readily apparent, but ancient Maya users may have been aware of it, and those who designed the structure must have considered it important.
Although all terrace profiles appear similar, setbacks are greater on the front than on the sides and rear. As a result, sides and rear are steeper than the front. The pyramid is symmetrical side-to-side but not front-to-rear. The building component, centered on the pyramid base, is placed slightly forward on the top so that the top terrace is wider behind than in front. There is no effective landing at the top of the great stair. Evidently, this was not a location for staging events.
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