Tiltepec / Santa Maria de Tiltepec
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09930TIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1575?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late), Tequitqui
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María de Tiltepec
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Church built ca. 1575
Church Address: Mitla, 69591 Santa María Tiltepec, Oax., Mexico
Site Location: Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
Directions to Site: Located off road 190, in the municipality of San Pedro Topiltepec, about 80 km NW of Oaxaca capital
Font Notes:
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Described in Steel (2004) as "a 16th-century footed baptismal font with feathered serpent motifs". A baptismal font in this church is mentioned without details in Robert J. Mullen's SANTA MARíA TILTEPEC: A MASTERPIECE OF MIXTEC VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE (AnalesIIE51, UNAM, 1983. Santa María Tiltepec) [https://www.analesiie.unam.mx/pdf/51_45-58.pdf] [accessed 11 August 2025]
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): -97.3558333, 17.4661111
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Steel, David Warren, "Historic Organs of Oaxaca", 3, Spring 2004, SAPAAN, 2004