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Xipe Totec
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Xipe Totec (Our Lord, the Wounded One) was the god of nature reawakening in spring; on his feast day a prisoner was sacrificed by having his skin pulled off; this was then put on by a priest; symbolised the death of Xipe Totec and his resurrection, as well as that of nature (E. Ruhnau)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Azteken
Object type
Torso of a stone figure
Dimensions
Height: 39,5 cm
Depth: 12,5 cm
Width: 23 cm
Material/Technique
Stone
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 3854
Related object(s)
is related to : Objektbezug: IV Ca 3708, Steinkopf, Xipe Totec, Postklassik, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)
Objektbezug: IV Ca 3708, Steinkopf, Xipe Totec, Postklassik, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)
is related to : Objektbezug: IV Ca 48183, Fragment einer Steinfigur, Füße, Xipe Totec, Postklassik, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)
Objektbezug: IV Ca 48183, Fragment einer Steinfigur, Füße, Xipe Totec, Postklassik, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)

Provenance and sources

when
1301 - 1521
where
Mexico
who
Azteken
who
Carl Adolf Uhde (de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$Begin@402e613b - de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$End@586c47f3) - Collectors

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