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- Coatepantli is a Nahuatl word meaning "wall of serpents". It comes from the words coatl meaning serpent and tepantli meaning wall. It is an architectural...
- apparent in the earlier stages. The grand temple base is surrounded by a coatepantli (Nahuatl for wall of serpents), a low platform supporting 138 stone sculptures...
- evidence that it was burned. This pyramid is also surrounded by the Coatepantli or serpent wall, which was later the inspiration for a similar structure...
- Sacred Precinct of the Templo Mayor was surrounded by a wall called the "coatepantli" (serpent wall). Among the most important buildings were the ballcourt...
- that found in the red temples of the Tenochtitlan ceremonial enclosure. Coatepantli. It means "wall of snakes" and it is a construction that framed the space...
- southwestern side of the great teocalli of the Templo Mayor and its coatepantli, the southeastern wall of the Temple of Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl and the...
- delimited by an atrial wall, which also coincided as reminiscence of the coatepantlis of the ceremonial centers of the Mesoamerican peoples. It was usually...