ID: 700008555 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008555	Record Type: Built Work
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Templo Mayor (temple (building); unknown Aztec architects; first temple after 1325, rebui...; Mexico City (Distrito Federal, México, North and Central ...;)

Note: A primary Aztec temple in the capital city of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City). Dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, god of war, and Tlaloc, god of rain and agriculture. Rebuilt six times on the same site.

Titles:

Templo Mayor (preferred,C,U,Spanish-P,U,U,English-P,U,U)

Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

temple (building) [300007595] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, ceremonial structures, religious structures, religious buildings)

ruins [300008057]

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by condition>)

rebuilding site [300404840]

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name), complexes (buildings and sites), <complexes by function>, sites (locations))

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: first temple after 1325, rebuilt 6 times; destroyed by the Spanish in 1521

Creator Display:

unknown Aztec architects [preferred,VP]

architect unknown Aztec (Aztec cultural designation) [500202913]

Locations:

Current: Ciudad de México [7007227] Distrito Federal (national district), Mexico (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Address Note: 19 26 06 N, 99 07 53 W

Other: Original: Tenochtitlan [7668941] Mexico City (inhabited place), Distrito Federal (national district), Mexico (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: masonry

	masonry construction (technique or process) [300404383]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>, assembling (additive and joining process), construction (assembling), <construction technique by form or materials>)

Dimensions: ca. 100 x 80 m (328 by 262 ft) at base

Events:

destruction: destroyed by the Spanish in 1521

Cultures:

Aztec (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Late Postclassic [300134119] (preferred,period)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Americas| The, Pre-Columbian (American), <Pre-Columbian Middle American styles and periods>, Mesoamerican, Mesoamerican periods, Postclassic)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness)

religion and mythology (purpose)

Specific Subjects:

	Tlaloc [901001411]
	.....((Nahua characters, Nahua iconography, Amerindian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Huitzilopochtli [901001410]
	.....((Nahua characters, Nahua iconography, Amerindian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: religious, ceremonial, and funerary structures

Sources and Contributors:
Templo Mayor	........ [VP]
	........ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 85133774
	........ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan	........ [VP]
	........ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)