Note VI-18 — Chapter VI · ANTIQUITIES OF TABASCO AND CHIAPAS, RUINS OF PALENQUE.
Reading edition
Descriptions and drawings of the bas-reliefs. Dupaix, pp. 20, 37, 75-6, pl. xix-xxii. Kingsborough, vol. iv., pl. xxvi., shows one damaged group not given in Antiq. Mex.; Del Rio, Descrip., pp. 9-11, pl. viii., x., xi., xv., xvi. (as they are arranged in my copy—they are not numbered); Stephens, vol. ii., pp. 311, 316-17; Waldeck, p. v., pl. xii., xiii. See Charnay, p. 426, and this vol., p. 246. Morelet, Voyage, tom. i., pp. 274, 282, implies that all the stucco work had disappeared at the time of his visit; and he mentions a shell-fish common in the region which furnishes good lime and was probably used by the ancients. Waldeck concludes that the supposed elephant's head may be that of a tapir, 'quoiqu'il existe parmi ces mêmes ruines des figures de tapir bien plus ressemblantes.' Voy. Pitt., p. 37.