Coyolxauhqui Stone

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Coyolxauhqui Stone
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Discovered February 21, 1978 at the Templo Mayor site

The Coyolxauhqui Stone is a carved, circular Aztec stone, depicting the mythical being Coyolxauhqui dismembered and decapitated. It was rediscovered in 1978 at the site of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, now in Mexico City.[1]

External video
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video icon Coyolxauhqui Monolith, c. 1500 from Smarthistory[2]

Notes

  1. See chapter "Art and Imperial Strategy in Tenochtitlan" by Emily Umberger, in Berdan et al. (1996, pp.85–108) and in particular pp.94–95.
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References

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