Tikal Temple III

[1] The pyramid was built in the Late Classic Period, and has been dated to 810 AD using the hieroglyphic text on Stela 24, which was raised at the base of its access stairway.

[3] The construction of Temple III indicated that Tikal was still politically stable at the beginning of the 9th century AD.

[6] Temple III is immediately south of the Tozzer Causeway and faces eastwards towards the Great Plaza.

[7] The inner doorway separating the two chambers of the summit shrine supports a finely sculpted lintel representing an obese figure wrapped in a jaguar skin.

[10] The roof comb and the outer chamber of the summit shrine have suffered lightning damage, causing a 10-centimetre (3.9 in) wide crack in the eastern wall of the corbel vaulting.