Sujet
Pottery. Bat-God: pottery with red paint. Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900 AD. (A branch of Aztec cu Artist: Unknown.
Légende
Camazotz, Bat-God, pottery with red paint, Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900. The cult of Camazotz began around 100 BCE among the Zapotec Indians in what is the modern-day Mexican state of Oaxaca. In Zapotec culture, the bat was associated with night, death, and sacrifice. The Zapotec civilization, a branch of Aztec culture, was an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica.
Date
300e siècle
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon
Notre référence
HRM19B83_328
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
53,1Mo (2,0Mo) / 29,7cm x 44,9cm / 3503 x 5303 (300dpi)