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Architectonic element that originally decorated the top part of a temple. It is shaped as a cactus, perhaps a barrel cactus from the Ferocactus covillei species. It was recovered from the site located at National Palace and Gamio Square. In the Florentine Codex, appear as shot on the shrine of Huitzilopochtli.

The sculpture in the center represents a section of a knife for sacrifice or "Tecpatl ". The finding was located south of the Marian entrance of the National Palace, where the Moctezuma`s houses used to be.