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A Tzompantli is a type wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations, which was used for the public display of human skulls, typically those of war captives or other sacrificial victims. Its precise etymology is uncertain, although its general interpretation is "skull rack" or "wall of skulls". It may be seen to be a compound of the Nahuatl words tzontecomatl ("skull"; from tzontli or tzom- "hair", "scalp" and tecomatl ("gourd" or "container"), and pamitl ("banner"). This derivation has been ascribed to explain the depictions in several codices which associate these with banners; however, F. Karttunen has proposed that pantli means just "row" or "wall". |
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| Source | Tzompantli at Templo Mayor museum. |
| Author | Iris from Culemborg, The Netherlands |
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