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ID: 7441526 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7441526			Record Type: administrative

Motul de San Jose (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 17 00 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 17.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 089 54 00 W degrees minutes			Long: -89.9150 decimal degrees

Note: Ancient Mayan site located just north of Lake Petén Itzá, a few kilometers from the modern village of San José. Motul has been identified as the source of Ik-style polychrome ceramics notable for its painted scenes depicting the courtly activities of Late Classic Mayan aristocracy. Contains hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Names:

Motul de San Jose (preferred,C,V)
Motul de San José (C,V)
Motul (C,V)	............	name given in 1922 to mean "distant stones"

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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North and Central America (continent) (P)

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Guatemala (nation) (P)

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Petén (department) (P)

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Motul de San Jose (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:

deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
ancient site (C)
inhabited place (H)	............	first settled between 600 and 300 BCE
city (H)
political center (H)	............	during the Mayan Late Classic period
ceremonial site (H)
Maya (Mayan) (H)
Pre-Columbian (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Motul..........	[VP Preferred]
..............	Clayton, Interregional Relationships in Mesoamerica, Latin American Antiquity (2005) 428
..............	NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 23 May 2011

Motul de San José..........	[VP]
................................	NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 23 May 2011

Motul de San Jose..........	[NRW Preferred, VP]
................................	Klassischen Maya (2016-) accessed 22 August 2016
................................	Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) accessed 6 May 2016

Subject: .....	[NRW, VP]
..................	Clayton, Interregional Relationships in Mesoamerica, Latin American Antiquity (2005) 428
..................	Foias, Motul de San José, Proyecto (1998) 1-8
..................	NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 23 May 2011


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Foias, Motul de San José, Proyecto (1998) 1-8
	..........	Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) "Motul de San Jose", accessed 6 May 2016

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