. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. SELER] TEMPLE PYRAMTD OF TEPOXTLAN 345 itself, which the third terrace forms. This temple is formed of meters thick, constructed of blocks of red and black tezontle(porous volcanic rock) with copious mortar of lime and sand,and reaching to a height of meters. The roof has fallen the ruins Mr Rodriguez was still able to determine that it-had been a flat arch, with a maximum rise of meter, a spanof 5 meters, and a thickness of meter, formed of pieces of tezontleand a great quantity of mortar,
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. SELER] TEMPLE PYRAMTD OF TEPOXTLAN 345 itself, which the third terrace forms. This temple is formed of meters thick, constructed of blocks of red and black tezontle(porous volcanic rock) with copious mortar of lime and sand,and reaching to a height of meters. The roof has fallen the ruins Mr Rodriguez was still able to determine that it-had been a flat arch, with a maximum rise of meter, a spanof 5 meters, and a thickness of meter, formed of pieces of tezontleand a great quantity of mortar, the use of which in thick layers madethe construction possible. On the site of the front wall are to beseen the remains of two rectangular masonry columns, which lefta wide central doorway with a narrow one on each side. The inte-. Fig. 84. Temple pyramid of Tepoxtlan, valley of Cuernavaca. rior space is divided by a wall, meter thick, pierced by a door-way, into two rooms, of which the front one runs back and theinner one meters, with a width of 0 meters. In the middle of thefront room Rodriguez found a rectangular depressiona (b in theplan, plate xl), and in it remains of charcoal and a couple of well-preserved pieces of copal. This was probably, therefore, the hearthwhere the sacred fire burned and whence, perhaps, gloAving coalswere obtained with which to burn incense to the srod. In the axis of the inner chamber against the rear wall stood theidol. The doorwav connecting the two rooms has a width of a Una oquedadform . Saville erroneously writes in this place a raised rectangular plat- 346 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 meters. It is flanked by two pillars, which are covered with stuccoand richly ornamented. At the bottom there is a sort of fluting;above this a grecque in relief, li
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