Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935 · New York, Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation · leaf 71
nevertheless, it throws some light on Tizoc and contains his portrait in the act of offering a blood sacrifice (fig. 14 and pi. lxi). The lower two-thirds of the face of the sculpture is occupied by an enormous representation of the year sign acatl, with the numeral eight shown by eight dots. It… … shall refer to this identification shortly. 14. — Tizoc on the Fig. Hanging over it are leaves, perhaps memorative tablet those of the maguey plant, but sug- gested by Mrs. Nuttall to be laurel leaves. In it are inserted two pricking instruments identified respectively by Seler as agave-leaf spikes…
Tizoc, Emperor of Mexico, d. 1486
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