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- A temalacatl was a gladiatorial platform believed to have been used by the different civilizations of Mesoamerica, consisting of a large stone disc with...
- the Sánchez-Nava Monolith. Historical sources refer to it simply as "temalacatl," literally meaning "round stone." Motecuhzoma I, also known as Motecuhzoma...
- while others are of unknown origin. Many fall under a category known as temalacatl, large stones built for ritual combat and sacrifice. Matos Moctezuma has...
- center of the top surface, it may have been a cuauhxicalli or possibly a temalacatl. Richard Townsend maintains, however, that the depression was made in...
- tied either around his waist or his ankle, binding him to the sacred temalacatl stone. At the end of the Tlacaxipehualiztli festival, gladiator sacrifice...
- as the namesake of the Stone of Tizoc a monumental sculpture (Nahuatl temalacatl), decorated with representation of Tizoc's conquests. The next ruler was...
- the victim was tethered in place to a large carved circular "stone" (temalacatl) and given a mock weapon. The captive, sometimes with one arm tied behind...
- ****ociation with the circular altar and the presence of a stone called a temalacatl found in the rubble of a 16th-century chapel. This is a sacrificial stone...