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Ancient Mesoamerica News Updates 2011, No. 11: Mexico City - Sculpted Sections of El Tajin Columns To Be Shown at "Six Cities" Exhibit
The sculpted center sections of three columns from the Mound / Structure of the Columns Building at El Tajin, Veracruz, Will Be Shown at the upcoming exhibit "Six ancient cities in Mesoamerica. Society and Environment" in the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City. It Will Be The First Time That the sculpted sections of all three columns Will Be Shown in public. These panels picture the story of 13 Rabbit, the Presumed conqueror of El Tajin and Probably Were Produced in the last part of the Epiclassic Period, circa AD 1100-1200. The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) posted a short notice on this subject last Friday, February 25, 2011 (edited by amanu, drawing and thinking after Image El Tajin, 1999, p. 76):
Museum of Anthropology will look columns of El Tajin - The shafts of the pillars of the Palace of the Columns, which is narrated in relief one of the most intriguing moments in the history of El Tajin, will be reunited for the first time at the National Museum of Anthropology ( MNA), to form part of the great exhibition six ancient cities in Mesoamerica. Society and Environment, to be submitted from March.
These disks of sandstone 18 to 108 cm diameter, superimposed exceed a meter in height and form the middle of three columns over a thousand years ago had to support the palace of one of the ancient rulers of El Tajin, in Veracruz state today.
The exhibition, organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), will be mounted in the Temporary Exhibition Hall of the MNA, where the pillars of the Palace of the Columns mark the entrance to the section will be devoted to El Tajin. The exhibition, which will bring together under one roof over 400 pre-Columbian pieces, will also report the development of ancient city \u200b\u200bof Monte Alban, Palenque, Teotihuacan, Tenochtiltlan and Tlatelolco.
in the shafts (midway between the base and the capital of a column) of the ancient Totonac city, visitors can admire the story of the arrival of the ruling Thirteen Rabbit El Tajin, who conquered the city and initiated profound changes in architecture to 800-1200 AD "was recorded in these columns when they Rabbit Thirteen of unknown origin, defeated a group that held power and was established in the same," said archaeologist Patricia Castillo, curator of this section exposure, indicating that the way the columns have been arranged for this exhibit, is as would have been the entrance to the Palace of the Columns, one of the last to be erected at El Tajin, probably between 1100 and 1200 AD
explained that in bas-relief of these architectural elements is observed at the same Thirteen Rabbit, as well as a of their strongest warriors: Thirteen Skull, who takes the hand of a captive, a high-level character. "In the middle column stands a scene of gentlemen dressed in plumes that have six or eight quetzal feathers, it is masterfully executed bas-reliefs," the archaeologist Patricia Castillo, director of the Centro INAH Veracruz.
Specialist abounded that other figure that stands in the shafts is that of a priestess dedicated to the worship of Tlaloc, god of water, the excellent work of the stone can even see the texture of the skirt carries. According to Patricia Castillo, "sociocultural evolution of El Tajin is marked by the arrival of Rabbit Thirteen towards Epi period (800-1200 AD), who introduced a religious unification argument by drawing on the image and symbols of two deities main Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl.
"Thirteen Rabbit also established an ideology and a new social institution-the latter represented by the duality also undertook the construction of famous monuments that would point in time and space, a new 'symbolic', which identified and restructured historical processes and worked as an announcement of the coming of Quetzalcoatl, the principal deity. "
INAH investigator noted that exposure six ancient cities in Mesoamerica. Society and Environment, is a unique opportunity for the public to see little-known pieces of El Tajin, including the records of the Palace of the Columns, which are under guard in this archaeological area.
Also, be concluded that the section on El Tajin, where the public can more widely known how important it was for the Mesoamerican Ballgame, considering that this site Veracruz have been reported so far 17 courts, "by assembling pieces representing yokes and palms, all of which were associated with this ritual . (Source INAH)
The drawing (from Sara Ladrón de Guevara, 1999, "Image and Thought in El Tajin," Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa) shows a Portion of the sculptured north section of the column from the Mound / Structure of the Building Columns complexicity Indicating the visual narrative of the program at this building. A Recent study describe the complex iconography illustrating the Ceremonies as Leading up to and the ultimate accession of 13 Rabbit to high political office at El Tajín (Rex Koontz, 2009, "Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: The Public Sculpture of El Tajín, Veracruz," University of Texas Press, Austin).