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  • ID: 223
  • Uploader: Itzli »
  • Date: 20 days ago
  • Approver: VeliteAquila »
  • Size: 1.15 MB .jpg (2500x1875) »
  • Source: britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am1982-Q-860 »
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the british museum by mesoamerica and mexica
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box

Fragment of andesite oblong box, with relief carvings including a depiction of an ahuizotl, a semi-mythical Aztec creature resembling a water possum. On the front of the box is a depiction of Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god, holding a jar inscibed with the glyph meaning jade. Maize and water pour from the jar, becoming more jade glyphs accompanied by conch shells. Around Tlaloc's neck is a pectoral inscribed with the glyph for gold.
Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum

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