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ID: 7441538
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7441538

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Topoxte (deserted settlement)  Topoxte (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 17 05 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 17.0830  decimal degrees
Long: 089 29 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -89.4910  decimal degrees

Note: Topoxte is an ancient Maya site in Guatemala with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Names:
Topoxte (preferred,C,V)  ............ named by Teobert Maler in 1904

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Guatemala (nation)  ........  Guatemala (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Petén (department)  ............  Petén (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Topoxte (deserted settlement)  ................  Topoxte (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
ancient site (C)
inhabited place (H)  ............  from the Mayan Pre-Classic Period
capital (H)  ............  capital of the Ko'woj Maya
Maya (Mayan) (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Topoxte..........  [NRW Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................  Chase, Topoxte and Tayasal, American Antiquity (1976) 154-156
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 May 2011
.................  Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) accessed 10 May 2016
.................  Sharer and Morley, Ancient Maya (1994) 424
Subject: .....  [NRW, VP]
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 May 2011
..................  Sharer and Morley, Ancient Maya (1994) 424
 
Note:
English .......... [NRW]
..........  Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) "Topoxte", accessed 10 May 2016

 

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