Tlaxcala No. 1

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LB01: human figure - head - Pre-Columbian - Aztec?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: grayscale version of a detail of an illustration in Lara (2008)

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Image Source: grayscale version of a detail of an illustration in Lara (2008)

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Image Source: illustration in Lara (2008)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06891TLA

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Catedral de San José [a parish church until 1640]

Church Patron Saints: St. Joseph

Country Name: Mexico

Location: Tlaxcala

Directions to Site: In the old centre, opposite the Mesón Real

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 16th century[basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: A similar one on the opposite side

Church Notes: The church, built ca. 1526, was made cathedral in 1640

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Reyes-Valerio (2000) as one of two holy-water stoups in this church; the stoup consists of a plain hemispherical basin mounted on a pre-Columbian statue ["ídolo]". Illustrated in Lara (2008). The image is identified as "Camaxti" in the web page of the Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud [source: www.imjuventud.gob.mex/Setrvicios/Redtur]]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Lara, Jaime, Christian texts for Aztecs: art and liturgy in Colonial Mexico, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008

Reyes-Valerio, Constantino, Arte indocristiano, México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2000