Stone carving (Stela F) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Thesiger Collection

Stone carving (Stela F) at Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala Thesiger CollectionView of a large stone carving at the ancient Maya site of Quirigua located near the banks of the Motagua river in the department of Izabal, Guatemala. The photograph shows the east side of a carved stone stela known by archaeologists as Stela F, as it was first described by Alfred Maudslay in his seminal publication of the Quirigua site in his multi volume Archaeology (1889 1902). More recent scholarship dates the stela (also known as Monument 6) to

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In the foreground a hut made from plant material

A tribesman of the Duru Bedouin sits in the sand facing towards the right

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View of an Arab man standing next to a domed building

and the goats milk poured through it

Musallim bin Al Kamam also holds a camel stick

the carving is now understood by scholars to represent a supernatural crocodilian

and his head is covered by a headscarf

In the left background tall mud buildings are clustered together at the foot of a rock escarpment

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