Pottery. Bat-God: pottery with red paint. Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900 AD. (A branch of Aztec cu Artist: Unknown.

Pottery. Bat-God: pottery with red paint. Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900 AD. (A branch of Aztec cu Artist: Unknown.

2-667-983 - © CM Dixon/Heritage Images

Camazotz, Bat-God, pottery with red paint, Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900. The cult of Camazotz began around 100 BCE among the Zapotec Indians in what is the modern-day Mexican state of Oaxaca. In Zapotec culture, the bat was associated with night, death, and sacrifice. The Zapotec civilization, a branch of Aztec culture, was an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica.


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  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
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  1. CM Dixon: British: Photographer

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  1. Object

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3503x5303
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  1. MTKK15 | MX14TC21-DX
  1. 0370005224
  1. 2-667-983
  1. 2667983
  1. MTKF17 | CA19DB4-DX

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