Sculpture, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City
Solar disc of the Fifth Sun with Huitzilopochtli patron god of the Mexica (left) and the tlatoani Motecuhzoma II (right), relief detail at the top of the Teocalli of the Sacred War, a temple style monument, possibly the throne of Motecuhzoma II, celebrating the victory of the sun and Mexica military prowess, basalt, late post-classic period, Mexica, Aztec, in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, or National Museum of Anthropology, opened 1964, holding national collections of archaeology and ethnography, in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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