
Templo de los mascarones
Estructura
It is located on a natural hill that needed to be conditioned with a giant platform for its construction. It is composed of four staggered superimposed bodies, it has an approximate height of 13 m and in the west facade it presents a stairway without alfardas that leads to the superior part, where a templete is conserved. About its architectural style, it can be said that it has influences of the Petén.
In each of the bodies contiguous to the stairway there are masks, six in total. These are sculptures in high relief of modeled stucco, covered by a red pigment. Their main motif is a monumental mask represented from the front, which occupies the center of a rectangular area in which the attributes of the personage are distributed. The faces seem to correspond to historical personages invested with solar attributes. They present Olmec features such as the moustaches and nose rings; the enormous eyes are associated with Kinich Ahaw, the lord solar face; the headdress is different in each mask, while the pectoral probably represents a jaguar that refers to the nocturnal sun in its journey through the underworld. On the sides stand out the earflaps completed with celestial serpents; and on the upper left side there is a representation of a shark or xoc, which could refer to the name of the ruling house of Kohunlich.
The Temple also has a tomb that was looted before the beginning of the explorations. Only teeth, jade fragments, a stingray spine and ceramic fragments belonging to the Early Classic were found in it.
Mask 2 North
Mask 2 South
Mask 3 North
Mask 3 South
Mask 4 South
