The Temple 22 Façade Reconstruction Project, Copán, Honduras

2001 Field Season

Objectives and Results:

The goal of the 2001 season was to continue Phase II of the project. This is the first year the project has had a staff beyond myself. New project members were Laura Ackley, 3D Model Designer, University of California at Berkeley; Evelyn Karina Ponce, Secretary; Edgar Jhair Zelaya, artist; and sculpture masons and assistants Santos Vasquez Rosa, and Francisco Canan (Figure 11, shown above). The 2001 season carried the following objectives:

(1)  refine the digital catalogue of 10L-22 sculpture in Honduras and foreign collections.
(2)  conserve unprotected sculpture still remaining at the archaeological site.
(3)  continue with motif analysis.
(4)  identify unions of broken sculpture fragments and restore them when possible.
(5)  create a preliminary digital two-dimensional reconstruction of the façades of 10L-22.
(6)  create a preliminary three dimensional digital reconstruction of the entire structure, including the sculpted façades.

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