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Turquoise Disk

Mosaic integrated by approximately 15,000 small turquoise incrustations. There are seven characters dressed as warriors on the outer strip, which are related with two deities linked to celestial elements fundamental for the Aztec religion: Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli (The Lord of the Place of the House of Twllight), associated with Venus, and Mixcoatl (Cloud Serpent), associated with the Milky Way.

It was discovered in 1994, during the excavations which took place under the building known as Casa de las Ajaracas, on the corner of República de Argentina and República de Guatemala. The finding corresponds to Phase VI of the Templo Mayor, dated on the years 1486 to 1502 AD.

The object, just as we now see it, is the result of a laborious work which included the analysis of the position held by each object at the moment of the finding, as well as the identification in pictorial and sculptural representations of the various figures which integrated it.