Santa María Nativitas Zacapán

INFORMATION

FontID: 06905NAT

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Capilla de Santa María

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: Mexico

Location: Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal

Directions to Site: Located at the end of the Camino Viejo, in Xochimilco, to the SE of the Bosque

Century and Period: Pre-Columbian

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Listed in Reyes-Valerio (2000: 366) as a "tepletacalli" [=stone box] of pre-Columbian origin re-used as holy-water stoup. The web site of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana gives the date of the Capilla as 1808 [source: alebrije.uam.mx/campus/entorno]. There is no stated record of the origin of the object.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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