Butterfly Nose Ornament: en sala — Museo de Arte de Cleveland

Near Teotihuacán’s largest palace is a temple ornamented with green-feathered serpents, symbols of the earth’s fertility. Beneath the temple were at least 120 human sacrifices, most men, many warriors, and some wearing greenstone ornaments like these, perhaps a set. The sacrifices may have consecrated the temple or a ruler’s tomb, or both.

Butterfly Nose Ornament

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En la misma sala · 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region, Museo de Arte de Cleveland

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Fuentes

Front Face of a Stela (Free-standing Stone with Relief), 692

Ballgame Palma, c. 900–1100

Mural Fragment with Elite Male and Maguey Cactus Leaves, 500–550

Panel with Royal Woman, c. 795

"Horned" Male, 100 BCE–300 CE

Head Fragment, c. 900–300 BCE

Figural Pendant, 1–800 CE

Figure of a Warrior, after 1325 (thermoluminescence date of casting core, 1345–1575)