This is the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia's own museum record for the Piedra del Sol, the Aztec Sun Stone displayed at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City, the institution that holds, conserves and catalogues the 24-ton basalt disc rediscovered beneath the city's Zocalo in 1790. As the holding institution's own account it is authoritative for the stone's custody, conservation and its own dating and identification of the carved imagery, including the five world ages and the central face of the sun god Tonatiuh. Its limit is that it is an institutional catalogue record rather than an independent peer reviewed study, so a specific and still debated claim, such as the precise astronomical or calendrical function of the carving, a genuinely open question in the scholarly literature, needs a source engaging that debate directly rather than the museum's own standing description.
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Reliability Tier2
This is the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia's own museum catalogue record for the Piedra del Sol, authoritative for the stone's custody and the institution's own dating and identification of its imagery, the middle tier reflecting an institutional catalogue record rather than independent peer reviewed argument on still-debated points. NotesEdited scholarly volume on the Aztec Sun Stone (Piedra del Sol).
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyInstituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH)
Custodian BasisHolding institution of the artifact documented: legal custodian responsible for its conservation, catalogue record, and public interpretation.
Citation
AuthorInstituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia
PublisherINAH
URLhttps://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/
Source TypeMuseum
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Mexico directly: "the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City, the institution that holds, conserves and catalogues the 24-ton basalt disc rediscovered beneath the city's Zocalo in 1790."
This source names Tonatiuh directly: "and the central face of the sun god Tonatiuh."
Claims Backed By This Source (22 claims)
This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 12 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Artifacts & Relics, 6 claims: 3 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Custodians & Museums, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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