Museo Lítico de Tikal (Tikal Lithics Museum), Tikal National Park, Petén, Guatemala
The monuments, and wooden lintel, presented here were all photographed on April 30, 2016. I shot the whole museum in one day; it was dark enough inside to shoot during the day with raking artificial light. Because of the rather rushed circumstances, I did not shoot closeup drawing aids of the individual glyph blocks, but I did shoot five or six raking light angles of the whole faces of each side, and I would be happy to provide these images to anyone who requests them (brucelove9@gmail.com). And I did not take the time to get the measurements of the monuments, which I usually do for these corpus volumes. Despite these shortcomings, I trust this presentation will be a welcome addition to the epigraphic history of central Petén.
-Bruce Love
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Stela 1
Stela 1: Front, Right, Back, and Left
Stela 2
Stela 2: Front, Right, Back, and Left
Stela 3
Stela 3: Front, Right, Back, and Left
(Left Side photo provided by Sergei Vepretskii)
Stela 4
Stela 4: Front and Back
Stela 6
Stela 6: Front and Back
Stela 8
Stela 8: Front, Right, Back, and Left
Stela 9
Stela 9: Front, Right, Back, and Left
Stela 12
Stela 12: Front, Right, Back, and Left
Stela 14
Stela 14: Front and Back
Stela 15
Stela 15: Front, Right, Back, and Left
Stela 16
Stela 16: Front
Stela 17
Stela 17: Front ?, Right ?, Back?, and Left ?
Stela 25
Stela 25: Front, Right, Back, and Left
Stela 26
Stela 26: Front, Right, Back, and Left
Stela 27
Stela 27: Front, Right, Back, and Left
(Right and Back views were inadvertently clipped when photographed.)
Stela 28
Stela 28: Front, Right, Back, and Left
Stela 30
Stela 30: Front
Stela 39
Stela 39: Front and Back
Stela 40
Stela 40: Front, Right, Back, and Left
Stela Tres Islas
Stela Tres Islas: Front
Temple IV Lintel
Temple IV Wooden Lintel (replica)
Altar 5
Altar 12
Altar 14
Suggested Citation: Love, Bruce. “Museo Lítico de Tikal (Tikal Lithics Museum), Tikal National Park, Petén, Guatemala.” Contributions to Mesoamerican Studies, June 20, 2026. brucelove.com/corpus/corpus-volume-020
Downloadable PDF: CtMS_Corpus_V020_Tikal-Lithics-Museum_Peten_Guatemala
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