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Grave 104 in Monte Alban

PERIOD IIIA-III B (200 to 500 AD)

This important tomb is located towards the corner
northwest of the North Platform, under the courtyard
west of the boundary building towards this point. His
facade was decorated with the double scapular motif;
in its central part, in a niche, was placed a
urn of Cocijo, God of rain and the seated thunder
on a jaguar-headed throne.

the camera decoration presents the
left (south wall) an elderly male figure
holding a bag with copal or kernels of corn;
over the niche, an offering box was painted on which
a bird is put with a grain of corn in its beak; the following
a cartridge composed of two dates: "2 Snake"
and "5 Snakes"; under this registration, we have another
offering box. At the bottom of the tomb, (west side)
a human face emerges from the "sky sickles"
with the inscription "5 Turquoise"; it is suggested that this
representation corresponds to a predecessor of the lineage
of the dead. On the right (north) wall a figure
male holds a bag with copal or grains of
corn; on the niche, a "sacrificial heart" and
above, the "1 Lightning" glyph cartridge. Near the
background wall, dates or names are read
"5 Owl" and "5 Lightning" calendars; that they could
refer to predecessors of the deceased. In the legs
they painted the trilobed sign with "reptile eyes"
jade ornaments. The tombstone that closed the tomb
contains information similar to that of the tombstone.