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Stone skull with painting from the Tzompantli, the skull scaffold; the cut-off skulls of human sacrifices were placed on this scaffold; the scaffold stood on a stone pedestal whose side walls were covered with such stone sculptures of skulls.

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Cultural attribution
Azteken
Object type
Stone skull
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 24,4 x 24,4 x 16 cm
Material/Technique
Stone
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 25748

Provenance and sources

when
1350 - 1521
where
Mexico
Toluca [Region]
who
Azteken

who
Bauer-Thoma, Wilhelm - Collectors

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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