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| − | A fine, white clay material. Zaccab is mixed with [ | + | A fine, white clay material. Zaccab is mixed with [[lime|lime]] to form a plaster called Maya cement that was used in the Yucatan peninsula for sculpture, building, and plastering material. |
== Sources Checked for Data in Record == | == Sources Checked for Data in Record == | ||
Revision as of 13:20, 9 May 2016
Description
A fine, white clay material. Zaccab is mixed with Lime to form a plaster called Maya cement that was used in the Yucatan peninsula for sculpture, building, and plastering material.
Sources Checked for Data in Record
- Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)
- Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000