ID: 700009283 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009283	Record Type: Built Work
Images: 1

Temple of Viracocha (temple (building); unknown Inca; unavailable, Inca; Raqchi (Pasco, Perú, South America, World, Top of the TGN...;)

Note: Temple, now in ruins, that was dedicated to the Inca deity, Virachocha. Compared to similar structures, it was enormous, a rectangular two-story roofed structure.

Titles:

Temple of Viracocha (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Templo de Wiracocha, Raqchi (C,U,Spanish,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>)

Classifications:

archaeological materials (preferred)

Creation Date: unavailable, Inca

Creator Display:

unknown Inca [preferred]

architects unknown Inca (Inca cultural designation) [500125282]

Locations:

Current: Raqchi [7033108] Pasco department (region (administrative division)), Peru (nation), South America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: masonry construction

	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: ground plan measured 100.5 x 26.5 meters (330 x 87 feet)

Cultures:

Inca (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness)

Specific Subjects:

	Viracocha [901001759]
	.....((Inca characters, Inca iconography, Amerindian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Temple of Viracocha	........ [VP]
	........ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Temples and Shrines: Pre-Columbian." accessed 14 February 2018
	........ Kuiper, Pre-Columbian America: Empires of the New World (2010) 165
	........ Steele, Handbook of Inca Mythology (2004) 113 ff
Templo de Wiracocha, Raqchi	........ [VP]
	........ Maysundo, Templo de Wiracocha, Raqchi (1983)

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

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Steele, Handbook of Inca Mythology (2004) 113
	..... Kuiper, Pre-Columbian America: Empires of the New World (2010) 165
	..... Maysundo, Templo de Wiracocha, Raqchi (1983)