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品名（中）	Temple模型
品名（英）	Temple Model
入馆年号	1994年，1994.35.684
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 200 - 公元 500
创作地区	墨西哥, 格雷罗（Mexico, Guerrero）
分类	石雕（Stone-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 4 3/4 × 宽 4 1/4 × 深 1 英寸 (12.1 × 10.8 × 2.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	Mezcala风格的石头模型主要来自墨西哥西南部的格雷罗州。作为一个特别悠久的传统，这些作品可能早在公元前500年就已经制作了1000多年。人们对它们的考古背景知之甚少，也很少有关于该地区现存建筑的参考。这些模型可能模仿了带有石碑的建筑，比如来自Cuetlajuchtlán的建筑；或者，他们可以回忆起地上或地下的葬礼结构，在这种情况下，柱子将代表坟墓或火葬柴堆的木支撑随着时间的推移，Mezcala模型可能具有多种功能，符合中美洲重新利用或重新修复石头物体的习俗。例如，长方形模型可能是从具有重大象征意义的仪式工具凯尔特人那里重新获得的。有几个在底座上钻了洞，可以用来用纤维将它们固定在一个更大的物品上，比如仪式束，这种做法在中美洲的考古和民族志背景下广为人知。建于1325年至1519年的阿兹特克首都特诺奇蒂特兰的神圣中心Templo Mayor的Mezcala石碑突出了这些作品作为传统延续、传家宝或古代风格模仿的重要性。
介绍（英）	Stone models in the Mezcala style come largely from the present-day state of Guerrero, in southwest Mexico. A particularly long-lived tradition, these works may have been produced over some one thousand years, from as early as 500 B.C. Little is known about their archaeological contexts, and there are few points of reference with surviving architecture in the region. It is possible that these models emulate buildings with stone columns, such as those from Cuetlajuchitlán; alternatively they could recall above- or below-ground funerary structures, in which case the columns would represent wood supports of a tomb or a funerary pyre. Mezcala models may have served multiple functions over time, in keeping with the Mesoamerican custom of repurposing or recarving stone objects. Oblong models, for example, may have been recarved from celts, ritual tools of great symbolic importance. Several have holes drilled into the base, which could have been used to fasten them with fiber to a larger item such as a ritual bundle, a practice widely known in archaeological and ethnographic contexts in Mesoamerica. Offerings of Mezcala stone objects in the Templo Mayor, the sacred center of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, built between 1325 and 1519, underscore the importance of these works as a continuation of tradition, as heirlooms, or as emulations of an ancient style.