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Figurine (potion) of Aztec goddess Cihuacoatl
A ceramic figurine portion orange/brown in colour. The portion shows a head and upper body of a woman, wearing a head-dress, her arm is bent and her hand rests on her breast. It is likely that this figurine is of the the Aztec goddess Cihuacoatl. This figurine would have been hollow and would have contained small ceramic balls so that when shaken would act as a type of rattle, used in fertlity or …
Creator
- The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- Aztec figurines
- Ritual rattles
- fertility rituals
- aztec culture
- ceramic figurines
- ritual objects
- rattles (indirectly struck idiophones)
- ceramic (material)
- figurines
- archaeological objects
- Ceramic
- Figurine
- Archaeological artifact
Type of item
- 3D
Creator
- The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- Aztec figurines
- Ritual rattles
- fertility rituals
- aztec culture
- ceramic figurines
- ritual objects
- rattles (indirectly struck idiophones)
- ceramic (material)
- figurines
- archaeological objects
- Ceramic
- Figurine
- Archaeological artifact
Type of item
- 3D
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Creation date
- 2022
- 2022
Temporal
- 14th to 16th century
- 16th century CE
Places
- Mexico
Provenance
- Models are created using Shining3D’s Einscan Pro 2X laser scanner and ExScan Pro software. They are then processed using Meshlab and Blender. ; Laser scanning; Mesh processing
Identifier
- share3d:1192
- share3d:1192
Format
- glTF
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- Share3D
- Ireland
Relations
- https://www.huntmuseum.com/explore/item/6bb32be7-f830-3046-b20f-6dbb7b7e87be/?pos=2
Year
- 2022
Providing country
- Ireland
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-12-05T10:02:28.672Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-09-11T14:48:51.577Z