Santa María Nativitas Zacapán
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06905NAT
Object Type: Stoup
Object Details: tepletacalli, stone box, Aztec
Font Century and Period/Style: Pre-Columbian
Church / Chapel Name: Capilla de Santa María
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico, North America
Directions to Site: Located at the end of the Camino Viejo, in Xochimilco, to the SE of the Bosque
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: originally an Aztec tepletacalli (stone box)
Font Notes:
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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, p. 366