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Title

The Aztec Calendar Stone / edited by Khristaan D. Villela and Mary Ellen Miller ; introduction by Khristaan D. Villela, Matthew H. Robb, and Mary Ellen Miller.

Publication

Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Villela, Khristaan.
• Miller, Mary Ellen.

Description

ix, 333 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Subjects

• Aztec calendar
• Inscriptions > Mexico
• Aztecs > Antiquities
• Aztec sculpture
• Mexico City (Mexico) > Antiquities
• Mexico > Antiquities
• Aztec cosmology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Khristaan D. Villela, Matthew H. Robb, and Mary Ellen Miller -- History of the Indies of New Spain (1581) / Fray Diego Durán -- Curious diary and notebook of the memorable events in Mexico during the government of Revillagigedo (1789-94) / José Gómez -- A historical and chronological description of two stones, which were found in 1790 in the principal square of Mexico during the current paving project (1792) / Antonio de Léon y Gama -- Researches concerning the institutions and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America, with descriptions and views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! (1810) / Alexander von Humboldt -- The Aztec Calendar Stone (1876) / Alfredo Chavero -- Catalog of the historical and archaeological collections of the Museo Nacional de México (1882) / Gumesindo Mendoza and Jesús Sánchez -- Collected works in Mesoamerican linguistics and archaeology (1888, 1899, 1901, 1915) / Eduard Seler -- The so-called Calendario Azteca : description and interpretation of the Cuauhxicalli of the House of the Eagles (1921) / Hermann Beyer -- The Stone of the Sun and the first chapter of the history of Mexico (1921) / Enrique Juan Palacios -- How was the stone called the Aztec Calendar Stone painted? (1942) / Roberto Sieck Flandes -- The central face of the Stone of the Sun : a hypothesis (1974) / Carlos Navarrete and Doris Heyden -- The dark and light sides of the Aztec Stone Calendar and their symbolical significance (1976) / Andrzej Wierciński -- The identity of the central deity on the Aztec Calendar Stone (1976) / Cecelia Klein -- State and cosmos in the art of Tenochtitlan (1979) / Richard F. Townsend -- The Aztec Calendar Stone : a critical history (1981) / Stacie Graham Widdifield -- A reconsideration of some hieroglyphs on the Mexica Calendar Stone (1988) / Emily Umberger -- The Stone of the Sun (1992) / Michel Graulich -- The problem of the identification of the central image of the Aztec Calendar Stone (1993) / H.B. Nicholson -- New insights on the interpretation of the Aztec Calendar Stone (with notes on skeletonization) (1993) / Ariane Fradcourt -- The Stone of the Sun (2000) / Felipe Solís -- The Aztec Calendar and other solar monuments (2004) / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.

Call Number

JGF 10-180

ISBN

• 9781606060049 (hardcover)
• 160606004X (hardcover)

LCCN

2009032142

OCLC

YBP 2009032142

Title

The Aztec Calendar Stone / edited by Khristaan D. Villela and Mary Ellen Miller ; introduction by Khristaan D. Villela, Matthew H. Robb, and Mary Ellen Miller.

Imprint

Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, c2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Villela, Khristaan.

Miller, Mary Ellen.

Research Call Number

JGF 10-180