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ID: 7018167
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018167
Record Type:
administrative
Copán (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 52 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 14.8667
decimal degrees
Long: 089 10 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -89.1667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located near Guatemalan border; was an important Classic Maya center of art and astronomy; noted for portrait sculptures; ruins were discovered by Spanish in the early 16th century. Site contains hieroglyphic inscriptions.
Names:
Copán
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Copán, Ruinas de
(
C
,
V
)
Ruinas de Copán
(
C
,
V
)
Ciudad de Copán
(
C
,
V
)
Copán Ruinas
(
C
,
V
)
Copan
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Honduras
(nation) (
P
)
............
Copán
(department) (
P
)
................
Copán
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
............
ruins were restored by a group jointly sponsored by the Carnegie Institution & the government of Honduras in 1936-1950
ruins (
C
)
World Heritage Site (
C
)
............
from 1980
Maya (Mayan) (
H
)
inhabited place (
H
)
............
flourished 300-900 AD
Sources and Contributors:
Ciudad de Copán..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Saur, Museums of the World (2004)
1:355
Copán..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 203
..............
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 23 April 2009
..............
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 8 December 2006
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
49
Copan..........
[
NRW Preferred
]
..............
Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-)
accessed 3 May 2016
Copán Ruinas..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 8 December 2006
Copán, Ruinas de..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 8 December 2006
Ruinas de Copán..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Subject:
.....
[
NRW
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 203
..................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 8 December 2006
..................
Saur, Museums of the World (2004)
1:355
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
49
..................
UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-)
accessed 23 April 2009
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-)
"Copan", accessed 3 May 2016
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