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423 Strs. Q-165 to 168 are situated in the Main Group, southwest of the Castillo (280 S, 350 W). The two principal structures are Q-165 and Q-168 (Fig. 33.1). The former, described in a following section of this report, is immediately adjacent to a colonnaded hall on the east. To the west, Strs. Q-166 to 168 stand on a single L-shaped platform. It was hoped that the chronological relation between these buildings and Str. Q-165 might be established, but the latter is built on a higher outcrop of bedrock and was not connected with the other structures by floors. StructureS Q-166, 167, AND 168 Ann Chowning Str. Q-168 As indicated above, the principal building of the three discussed here is Q-168, a simple dwelling-type structure (Fig. 33.1; see Ruppert and Smith 1951:231). It occupies most of the shaft of the L-shaped platform and faces east. In front of it is a small plaza, the terrace wall of which runs eastward from near the northeast corner of Q-168, then south toward Q-165. Another terrace wall supports the north side of Q-168. There are traces of what may have been a staircase on the north side of the plaza, which is roughly rectangular. A plaster plaza floor in fair condition extends under the front wall of Q-168, but the same or a later floor turns up to its exterior bench farther south. Q-168 was in poor condition, as the result of exposure and the building of a post-conquest wall over its rear wall. The rear and side walls are low and constructed of rough masonry; the upper wall and roof were undoubtedly of perishable material. The front of the house is open, and faced with two parallel rows of stone slabs, set on edge; the back row is 0.05 m higher than the front one. The platform on C u r r e n t R e p o r t s Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Archaeology No. 33 January 1956 A Dwelling and Shrine at Ma yapán Ann Chowning And donAld E. Thompson Ann Chowning And donAld E. Thompson 424 which the building is set extends about two-thirds of the way across the front of it; on its north side and for most of its length, it is a rough slab wall, but in front of the south passageway of the house. It becomes a low stone step, made of rectangular slabs laid flat. It is possible that this functioned as the entryway into the house, although the front wall is only 0.45 m high at other points. The front room contains three benches, two of them rectangular and the third L-shaped. All were faced with a single course of rectangular stones, usually rough, but well cut, Puuc type stones were used for one side of the middle bench. Heights of bench faces vary from 0.17 to 0.50 m, sometimes on one bench. A medial wall, about 0.50 m high and composed of a double row of stones on edge, ran behind each bench. Two sets of roughly shaped jamb stones stood on either side of the passageways to the rear room; the jambs at the front corners of the benches face forward, and those on the medial walls face the passage. The back room is divided in two by a bench, 0.17 m high and faced on one side with one to two courses of well cut, flat stones, which fills the space between the medial wall behind the central bench and the rear wall. The depth of the debris in the northwest corner of the building suggests that a very crude bench may have stood there, but fall from the walls may also account for it. A broken metate rested at floor level in the debris. The plaster floor is well preserved in the other back room, in which a narrow passageway separates the medial wall from a small rectangular bench built against the rear. A wall across the end of the L-shaped front bench apparently was extended here to meet the medial wall; the stone or stones were subsequently removed, but the turn-up of the floor indicates their position. The narrow passageway just mentioned leads into a transverse room which contains two rectangular benches, one filling the southwest corner, and one, built against the end...

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