Stele di Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, signore dell'alba

The photograph forms part of the iconographic apparatus of the volume Museo Nazionale di Antropologia di Città del Messico (Mondadori, 1979), included in the Musei del Mondo series. The texts of the volume were written by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and Licia Collobi. The sculpture is reproduced in the catalogue with the following caption (p. 126): Stela of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, Lord of the Dawn. 1000–1200. Detail. Limestone; 170 × 110 cm. From Tepetzintla. Catalogue no. 3–583. The deity of the dawn, associated with the planet Venus, was depicted among the Huastecs wearing a mask, hook-shaped earrings, and folded-paper decorations. These attributes were later transferred to identify Ehecatl, Lord of the Wind. Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Lucca, Phototheque, Oriental and Extra-European Art section, folder 235/T, file “Latin America_Pre-Columbian Mexico”.