| Key: MNC 10-3240 |
| Actual Location: National Museum of Cultures, Mexico City, Mexico (warehouse). |
| Collection: Fernando Sologuren #508 |
| Registration: 10-3240 (number written on the piece). |
| Provenance: Mound 5, tomb A (on the roof of the structure), Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca (Sologuren's excavation 1886). |
| Measurements: tapa: 28 cm.; base: 19 cm. (47 cm. total) |
| Color: Grey clay; the two ears of corn in the headdress are painted in red. |
| Chronology: Xoo 600 - 800 AD |
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| Reference: Seler's watercolor, 1888; Peñafiel 1893: 53; C.B. Waite, circa 1901, AGN, Mexico; Bauer's photo circa 1900, in König and Kröfges 2001: 131; Seler [1904]1960: 338, fig. 61 (black and white copy of the watercolor); Martínez Gracida 1910: plate 82 |
| Comments: According to Martínez Gracida, four of these pieces were found as "merlons" on the tomb's roof. The drawing presented is based on a photo published by Peñafiel (1893: 53). In their work "Urns of Oaxaca", Caso and Bernal (1952: 17, fig. 1) presented the lid with the wrong box. The matching box must be the piece on page 45, fig. 59, of the same work (MNA 6-791). It is worth mentioning that there is a box exhibited at the National Anthropology Museum, under catalog number 6-6956 (INAH 10-522684), which is identical to the box of a piece at the National Museum of Cultures and which must be part of this series of objects. |
| Glyphs: Glyph C in the headdress flanked by two ears of corn. |
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