
Grupo de las Cruces
Estructura
This civic-religious plaza is located to the southeast of the Otulum stream and on the side of the hillside modified to accommodate the buildings. The architectural platform was achieved based on fillings in its east end and formed a perimeter delimitation with a sloping retaining wall.
Temple of the Cross: It is located on a natural promontory of the hillside, which was used to elevate the temple and functioned as a foundation. The hillside was covered with stone to give shape to the bodies. The main façade faces south.
Temple of the Foliated Cross: Like the Temple of the Cross, it is located on a natural promontory of the hillside, which was used to give elevation to the temple and to function as a base. Its main façade faces west.
Temple of the Sun: It is located in the western part of the esplanade that conforms the square of the Group of the Crosses. Its main facade faces east. Its back faces a slope that was covered as a retaining wall.
Temple XIV: It is located to the north of the Temple of the Sun, to the west of the Temple of the Cross and its main façade faces east. The temple is a structure on two bases, with two elongated bays from south to north, like the temples of the Plaza de las Cruces in the back bay. In the central room there is a sanctuary that conserves fragments of human and symbolic figures modeled in stucco. In the back wall of the sanctuary there is a panel sculpted in bas-relief in three limestone slabs embedded in the wall. The scene corresponds to the commemoration of a posthumous event: lord Serpent-Jaguar II initiates a dance, while his mother Ahpo-Hel, offers him a deity associated to the royal lineage (God K).
