Sculpture of Tlaloc, God of Water

1400-1521 (Late Postclassic)

28.8 cm 50.2 cm 27.5 cm

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One element of the strategic brilliance of the Mexica political machine was its incorporation of conquered towns' local deities into the imperial pantheon, its two primary gods being their patron deity Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, the deity of rain and water, whose worship was...

Sculpture

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80356
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Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, August 17, 1945, by purchase. Given to Walters Art Museum, 2014
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en
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6
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