{"type":"artobject","objectid":11409,"objectnumber":"2007-136","sortnumber":"2007  136","displaytitle":"Xipe Totec (The Flayed One)","department":"Art of the Ancient Americas","classification":"Sculpture","datebegin":1325,"dateend":1521,"datecomputed":1423,"daterange":"A.D. 1000-1500","displaydate":"1325–1521","medium":"Volcanic stone with red pigment","dimensions":"37 × 21.5 × 16.5 cm (14 9/16 × 8 7/16 × 6 1/2 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Gift of Gillett G. 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They fought, joining in battle against the valiant warriors, the chosen ones, the selected, and all who were taking their pleasure, those who became besotted, the buffoons, those who imitated, who pretended to be warriors—the unafraid of death, the jostlers, the perverted warriors. There they exercised their weapons, they skirmished like fighters in war. They ceased [at a place] called Totecco.\n</p>\n<p><b>\n\tA Mexica contributor to Bernadino de Sahagún’s <i>Florentine Codex</i></b>, book 1, folio 16r, original Nahuatl translated by Charles E. Dibble and Arthur J. O. Anderson\n</p>","remarks":"AAA3_20-T3B-6_CLA_FA_7_17_25.pdf - Day 1 installation"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tBy 1968, Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [1]; 2007, gift of Gillett G. Griffin to the Princeton University Art Museum.\n</p>\n<p>\n\tNotes:\n\t<br />\n\t[1] This object was loaned to the museum in 1968 (L.1968.178).\n</p>","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":50028,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV016771","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"Arne Eggebrecht, <I>Glanz und Untergang des Alten Mexiko: Die Azteken und ihre Vorläufer </I>(Mainz: Verlag Phillip von Zabern<I>,</I> 1986).","citation":"Arne Eggebrecht, <I>Glanz und Untergang des Alten Mexiko: Die Azteken und ihre Vorläufer </I>(Mainz: Verlag Phillip von Zabern<I>,</I> 1986)., cat. no. 213 (illus.)","date":1986,"id":2583,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/475098669"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2007,\" in \"More than one: photographs in sequence,\" special issue, <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 67 (2008): p. 96-119.<br>","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2007,\" in \"More than one: photographs in sequence,\" special issue, <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 67 (2008): p. 96-119.<br>, p. 118","date":2008,"id":977,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/20442639"},{"boilertext":"Mereth Sundby, \"Hovedpyramiden: Udgravningen ved Zocalo i Mexicos hovestad\", <I>Louisiana revy</I> 29, no.1 (1987).","citation":"Mereth Sundby, \"Hovedpyramiden: Udgravningen ved Zocalo i Mexicos hovestad\", <I>Louisiana revy</I> 29, no.1 (1987)., p. 31 (illus.); cat. no. 196, p. 77","date":1987,"id":2704,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/186357330"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":1707,"citation":"Pre-Columbian Art from Mesoamerica (April 23–June 20, 1981)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"1981-04-23","enddate":"1981-06-20","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1707"},{"exhibitionid":1708,"citation":"Glanz und Untergang des Alten Mexiko: Die Azteken und ihre Vorläufer (June 30, 1986 - October 30, 1988)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"1986-06-30","enddate":"1988-10-30","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1708"}],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: North America, Mexico, Central Mexico","code":"Place made","continent":"North America","subcontinent":"Mesoamerica","country":"Mexico","region":"Central Mexico","state":null,"city":null,"county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/3996063/mexico.html","location":{"lat":"23","lon":"-102"}}],"terms":[{"id":2096051,"term":"mythology","aatid":300055985,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2096251,"term":"iconography","aatid":300055859,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2035674,"term":"Postclassic","aatid":300016987,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2035681,"term":"Late Postclassic","aatid":300134119,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2035732,"term":"Aztec","aatid":300017033,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2055437,"term":"figurines","aatid":300047455,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2163349,"term":"volcanic rock","aatid":300011246,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2164290,"term":"stone","aatid":300011176,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2168424,"term":"pigment","aatid":300013109,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2055437,"classification":"figurines"}],"cultures":[{"id":12496,"culture":"Mexica","alphasort":"Mexica","begindate":0,"enddate":0,"displayculture":"Mexica","displaydate":null}],"cultureterms":[{"id":2035732,"culture":"Aztec"}],"periods":[{"id":24018,"period":"Late Postclassic Period","alphasort":"Postclassic Period, Late","begindate":1350,"enddate":1521,"displayperiod":"Late Postclassic Period","displaydate":null}],"periodterms":[{"id":2035674,"period":"Postclassic"},{"id":2035681,"period":"Late Postclassic"}],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199317,"term":"Art of the Ancient Americas","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"37.00"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"21.50"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"16.50"}],"packages":[{"packageid":225488,"name":"Gallery_20(Pavilion5)-AAA"},{"packageid":229546,"name":"2023_HIS400_10_23"},{"packageid":278831,"name":"10282025-DAY1-ONVIEW"},{"packageid":214598,"name":"2022_LAS307/ANT307/ARC317/ART388_04_11"},{"packageid":131333,"name":"CRS_ART103_04_12-13"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV016771"],"displaymaker":null,"displayculture":"Mexica","displayperiod":"Late Postclassic Period","caption":"Mexica, Late Postclassic Period, 1325–1521, Central Mexico, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Xipe Totec (The Flayed One). 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