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Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:49:22 +0100

POT WITH AN IMAGE

This amazing piece was found during the fourth and fifth season excavations of the Templo Mayor Project, that took place between 1991 and 1997 in the Casa de las Águilas (House of the Eagles), a building
located towards the north of the Templo Mayor. It is an imitation, manufactured in the Basin of Mexico, of the priced plumbate ceramic whose original production area was found in the eastern portion of the
Soconusco region, shared nowadays by the Mexican state of Chiapas and the Republic of Guatemala.

The face captured on the pot corresponds to an elderly person and possibly represents the god of fire, Xiuhtecuhtli. Through the similarity between this object and others that have been found in Teotihuacan, it is feasible that the Aztecs took it from that city, which was sacred for them.