Tablero

Also called tableros

The vertical framed panel set above a talud in Mesoamerican platforms (Spanish, “board”); at Teotihuacan it projects over the slope beneath it.

Rules that use the word

Talud and tablero. Build each stage of a platform as a sloping talud surmounted by a vertical tablero: a rectangular panel framed by a projecting border and cantilevered slightly over the slope below; repeat the pair at every stage.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters The Americas.

A feature of Mesoamerican architecture.

Nearby in the glossary

Stylobate · Sukiya · Systyle · Taberna · Tablinum · Taenia · Taihu stone · Taiji