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Filename: 
MawM0287-000.jp2
Identifying Number: 
MawM0287
Title: 
Florero : Tlaloc with his attributes.
Subject: 
Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley
Subject: 
Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley
Subject: 
Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley
Subject: 
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
Description: 
A basic blackware vessel called a florero has been transformed into the image of the Storm God, Tlaloc. The Rain God holds an incense bag in his right hand and a lightning bolt in his left. The Tlaloc vessel with goggled eyes, ears with ear spools, and fangs emerging from a curved mouth held water for ritual ceremonies.
Materials: 
Ceramic: brownware, reduced; hand built, press molded.
Publisher: 
California State University, Los Angeles
Date: 
between 150 and 750
Type: 
Artifact
Object Type: 
Vessel
Dimensions: 
6 11/16 in high x 4 15/16 in wide x 5 1/2 in deep
Collection: 
MAW Collection
Location: 
Teotihuacan, Mexico
Rights: 
Physical collection housed at California State University, Los Angeles. | MATERIALS ARE IN COPYRIGHT | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Culture: 
Teotihuacan
Period: 
Classic
Period: 
TTH II