Atlixco

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B01: design element - motifs - glyph - Pre-Columbian

INFORMATION

FontID: 09201ATL
Church/Chapel: Church of the Franciscan convent
Country Name: Mexico
Location: Puebla
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(late), Pre-Columbian
Cognate Fonts: The Mixcoac basin is also suspected of having been a quauhxicalli previously
Duverger (2003: 131) mentions a baptismal basin installed in the Franciscan convent of Atlixco as a pre-Cortés quauhxicalli [the vessel in which the bloodied heart of the sacrificed victim was deposited] ["un authetique quauhxicalli précortésien"] [cf. Index entry for Mixcoac for another such vessel of Aztec origin]. The grey-stone basin, which has lost the original colour pigmentation, is covered in braided glyph ["du glyphe de la natte"] and the base, in the shape of truncated pyramid, still has the original drain channel to evacuate the precious sacrificial blod ["la rigole ouverte pour que ruisselle vers la terre le précieux sang des sacrifiés"]. Duverger (ibid.) dwells in the obvious association between the pre-Columbian quahxicalli and the sacrificial [i.e., Eucharistic] and cleansing role of the baptismal font and liturgy.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, grey stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Duverger, Christian, Pierres métisses: l'art sacré des indiens du Mexique au XVIe siècle, Paris: Seuil, 2003