This is a mended statue that rebuilt by archeologists who exhumed the ruined remains at Teotihuacan. The photogrammetry comes from a trip to see the Teotihuacan exhibit at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. From the Museum’s online exhibition Story:
Several sculptures from Teotihuacan, including this marble figure, exhibit evidence of violent destruction relating to a great fire that marked the city’s demise. Around 550 CE, the ceremonial center was burned and ritual objects were intentionally smashed and scattered in acts meant to divest them of their ritual power. Teotihuacan’s demise may have resulted from environmental difficulties or from political unrest and societal tensions rooted in the migrations into the Valley of Mexico. Whatever the cause, the systems of urban and religious maintenance devised by the Teotihuacan rulers that had succeeded for over 400 years fell apart, and Teotihuacan’s regional dominance ended.
More at: https://digitalstories.famsf.org/teo/#the-great-fire-and-legacy
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