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ballcourt (noun) - A term used in sports to describe an enclosed area designated for playing ball games, such as basketball, tennis, or volleyball
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- A large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica to play the Mesoamerican ballgame.
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All the ballcourt walls were built of large stones.
Other markers were set into ballcourt walls.
The stone ballcourt goals are a late addition to the game.
Its original placement was indicated by a hole in the upper part of the ballcourt wall.
The main ballcourt was placed between the palaces of two of the principal noble houses.
New and old buildings are faced with limestone and a ballcourt is built.
The ballcourt at Toniná was decorated with sculptures of bound captives.
The ball itself was called ōllamaloni and the ballcourt was called a tlachtli.
It supports a Mesoamerican ballcourt and a number of mounds that have not yet been investigated archaeologically.
Present-day ruins consist of two small plaza groups and a ballcourt.
The site also holds a ballcourt for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame.
Various sculptures, stelae, and other stonework were also important components of the ballcourt.
The North Ballcourt is constructed by three layers of large flagstones.
Some of the structures in this area are, Ballcourt.
A large Ballcourt for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame.
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Structure 2 is a small altar platform to the south of the ballcourt and west of Structure 7.
There is also a ballcourt located next to Structures XIII and XIV.
Pyramid A1 is one of the principal structures of Group A, together with the ballcourt.
The ballcourt is so well preserved, it appears ready to host a game.
Structure 16 is close to the northwest ballcourt.
It is a sunken ballcourt with a north-south orientation and is entirely enclosed.
Structure 14 is the northwest ballcourt.
The ballcourt becomes a place of transition, a liminal stage between life and death.
Diehl, pp . 32, although the identification of a ballcourt within San Lorenzo has not been universally accepted.
Ballcourt A-19 lies on the west side on the north plaza.
It is located in the Ballcourt Plaza, just south of the ballcourt.
Tajin VI from 600 CE saw the construction of the north ballcourt.
The stone ballcourt goals ( see photo to right ) are a late addition to the game.
The largest ballcourt found in Mayan cities ran the length of 459 feet.
The Ballcourt consists of Structures 22 and 23, it was used for the ceremonial Mesoamerican ballgame.
