. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. n 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, like those in the palaces at Mitla, andat the top a picture of the sun, only the lower part of which is s
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. n 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, like those in the palaces at Mitla, andat the top a picture of the sun, only the lower part of which is stillpreserved. All are painted in color, and the colors are still tolerablyfresh. In the place where the idol stood, in the rear room, Rodri-guez found remains of a substructure (a on the plan, plate xl)among which were two sculptured fragments, one of them, accordingto his account, containing a bas-relief, of what character is not stated,painted in a deep red color; the other, the relief picture of a Mexi-can royal crown (xiuh-uitzolli). Both pieces are now preserved in. Fig. 85. View of the interior of Tepoxtlan, after Saville. the cabildo of Tepoxtlan, in a room transformed into a most interesting feature of the inner apartment are the benches,ornamented on the front with carved stones. These run round a partof the front room and along the rear and both lateral walls ofthe back room (c on the plan, plate xl). They display at the upperpart a narrow, somewhat projecting frieze, on which, it seems, thetwenty characters for the days are represented. Beneath this (seefigure 85), on each lateral wall, there are placed four large slabs,with symbols in relief, apparently relating to the four cardinalpoints. On the south side we see what seem to be the four prehis-toric ages; on the north side the gods corresponding to the four seler] TEMPLE PYRAMID OF TEPOXTLAN 347 cardinal points are represented by their symbols. I must foregoattempting to explain these more exactly unti
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