Hunchback figure at The British Museum, London
Hunchback figure at The British Museum, London
3D
Published 2016-03-03T16:23:45+00:00
The many representations of hunchbacks have led to the suggestion hunchbacks people held positions of importance in the ancient Mesoamerican world. Beginning with Olmec peoples, these individuals were thought to possess special abilities due to their physical anomalies.
People with hunchbacks, and dwarves, were held to possess supernatural attributes, appearing in Mesoamerican mythology as skybearers and linked to water deities. In later times the court of the Aztec emperor Motecuhzoma II included both hunchbacks and dwarves as jesters and as advisers for religious and state matters.
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Scanned : Photogrammetry (Processed using Agisoft PhotoScan)
Infill 20%, 0,2 layer
| Date de publication | 03/03/2016 |
| Durée d’impression | 240 - 300 minutes |
| Quantité de filament | 20 |
| Dimensions | 100mm x 60mm x 50mm |
| Technologie | FDM |
| Titre | Hunchback figure |
| Date | 1200BC - 400BC |
| Dimension | Height: 8.4 centimetres |
| Accession | Am1975,14.1 |
| Période | Olmec |
| Medium | stone |
| Record | http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=477108&partId=1&searchText=olmec&images=true&page=1 |
| Localisation | British Museum |
