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Tenodlntitlan
BRIAN PAGAN
General Editor
Tenodhtitlan
Leonardo Lopez Lujan
and Judy Levin
OXPORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
To Laura, Mariana, and Emilia — L. L. L.
To my Laura — J. L.
OXJORD
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/Aztec
frog sculpture
from the Great Temple,
1440-1469.
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Cover:
Rafael Gonzalez,
Tomas Cruz, and Leonardo
Lopez Lujan (from left to
right) examine a 15th-
century Aztec offering.
Half title page:
Sculptures
of human skulls decorate
the wall of a building in
Tenochtitian.
Title page:
Mosaic mask
of Quetzalcoatl, 15th-
16th century.
Table of contents:
Turquoise mosaic of a
double-headed serpent,
15th-16th century.
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Design: Kinglsey Parker Layout: Alexis Siroc
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lopez Lujan, Leonardo.
Tenochtitian / Leonardo Lopez Lujan and Judy Levin.
p. cm. — (Digging for the past)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517851-7
ISBN- 10: 0-19-517851-3
l.Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico) 2. Indians of Mexico — Mexico — Mexico
City — History. 3. Indians of Mexico — Mexico — Mexico City — Antiquities. 4.
Excavations (Archaeology) — Mexico — Mexico City. 5. Mexico City (Mexico) —
Antiquities. I. Levin, Judy. II. Tide. III. Series.
F1219.1.M5L67 2005
972'. 53— dc22
2005021703
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Printed in Hong Kong on acid-free paper
Picture Credits: Courtesy Proyecto Templo Mayor: 19, 24, 26, 27, drawing by Luis Barba and Agustin
Ortiz: 32, photograph by Salvador Guilliem: 29, 30, 36, photograph by Leonardo Lopez Lujan: 5,
33, 45; Picture taken and published by Leopoldo Batres, Exploradones orqueologicas en las Calks de las
Escalerillas, ano de 1900, Mexico, Tipografica
y
Litografia "La Europea", 1902: 25; Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana,
ms. Med. Palat. 219, c. 373r Su concessione del Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali: 15; ©
The Trustees of The British Museum: 3, 4; William Bullock,
A
Description of the Unique Exhibition Called
.Ancient Mexico: 23; Codex Magliabechiano: 40; Hernan Cortes, Cartas de Relacion, Nuremberg Edition (in
Latin), 1524. Wood Engraving: 1 1; Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, Florentine Codex: 9; Fray Diego Duran,
Historic de la Indies de Nueva Espana e Islas de la Tierra Firme: 13, 16; Courtesy of Leonardo Lopez Lujan: cover,
3, 14, 34, 41 (top), 43; Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections: 21; Schalkwijk /
Art Resource, NY: 20; Shutterstock: 46; Werner Forman / Art Resource, NY: 8, 19; Rafael Ximeno y
Planes and Joaquin Fabergat: 17; © Michel Zabe: 1, 37, 38, 44; Richard Zalk: 41 (bottom)
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