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The Peten Itza kingdom was a kingdom centered on the island-city of Nojpetén on Lake Peten Itza. == Nojpetén == (詳細はHistoria verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España''〔Díaz del Castillo 1632, 2005, p. 584.〕 Nojpetén was closely packed with buildings that included temples, palaces and thatched houses.〔Jones 1998, p. xix.〕 In 1698 Spanish accounts describe the city as having had twenty-one temples, the largest of these (which the Spanish called a ''castillo'') had a square base measuring on each side. It had nine stepped levels and faced northward; it appeared very similar in design to the principal pyramids at Chichen Itza and Mayapan in Yucatán. This was about half the size of the Mayapan ''castillo''; its nine levels may each have been less than high; the pyramid would still have been imposing. It possibly had only one access stairway rather than the four radial stairways found in the examples in Yucatán. The pyramid was topped by a flat-roofed summit shrine that contained idols representing Itza gods. The dismantling of this pyramid would have required considerable effort but no mention of this is found in Spanish records.〔Jones 1998, p. 74.〕 When Spanish missionary Andrés de Avendaño y Loyola visited the city in early 1696, nine of the temples had recently been burnt during a Kowoj Maya attack and subsequently rebuilt; during the attack many houses had also been destroyed.〔Jones 2009, p. 62.〕 Ritual ceramics, identified by the Spanish as idols, were arranged in pairs upon small benches throughout the city. The Spanish set about destroying the pagan idols after conquering the city.〔Rice 2009b, p. 277.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peten Itza Kingdom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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