The Aztec Calendar Stone
By: edited by Khristaan D. Villela and Mary Ellen Miller ; introduction by Khristaan D. Villela, Matthew H. Robb, and Mary Ellen Miller.
Contributors: Villela, Khristaan.; Miller, Mary Ellen.
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781606060049
Subjects: Aztec calendar; Aztecs -- Antiquities; Aztec cosmology; Aztec sculpture; Inscriptions -- Mexico; Mexico -- Antiquities; Mexico City (Mexico) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Khristaan D. Villela, Matthew H. Robb, and Mary Ellen Miller; title: History of the Indies of New Spain (1581) / Fray Diego Durán; title: Curious diary and notebook of the memorable events in Mexico during the government of Revillagigedo (1789-94) / José Gómez; title: 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; title: 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; title: The Aztec Calendar Stone (1876) / Alfredo Chavero; title: Catalog of the historical and archaeological collections of the Museo Nacional de México (1882) / Gumesindo Mendoza and Jesús Sánchez; title: Collected works in Mesoamerican linguistics and archaeology (1888, 1899, 1901, 1915) / Eduard Seler; title: The so-called Calendario Azteca : description and interpretation of the Cuauhxicalli of the House of the Eagles (1921) / Hermann Beyer; title: The Stone of the Sun and the first chapter of the history of Mexico (1921) / Enrique Juan Palacios; title: How was the stone called the Aztec Calendar Stone painted? (1942) / Roberto Sieck Flandes; title: The central face of the Stone of the Sun : a hypothesis (1974) / Carlos Navarrete and Doris Heyden; title: The dark and light sides of the Aztec Stone Calendar and their symbolical significance (1976) / Andrzej Wierciński; title: The identity of the central deity on the Aztec Calendar Stone (1976) / Cecelia Klein; title: State and cosmos in the art of Tenochtitlan (1979) / Richard F. Townsend; title: The Aztec Calendar Stone : a critical history (1981) / Stacie Graham Widdifield; title: A reconsideration of some hieroglyphs on the Mexica Calendar Stone (1988) / Emily Umberger; title: The Stone of the Sun (1992) / Michel Graulich; title: The problem of the identification of the central image of the Aztec Calendar Stone (1993) / H.B. Nicholson; title: New insights on the interpretation of the Aztec Calendar Stone (with notes on skeletonization) (1993) / Ariane Fradcourt; title: The Stone of the Sun (2000) / Felipe Solís; title: The Aztec Calendar and other solar monuments (2004) / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.