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Photographer: J. Makali Bruton
Taken: April 2, 2021
Caption: Tablet on the meaning of Ixmiquilpan at the Municipal Palace
Additional Description: Ixmiquilpan most likely means "place where the grass cuts like a knife". The tablet reads:
Ixmiquilpan.
Etimologia: Itz expresado por un tecpatl de pedernal tinto en rojo de sangre, es el símbolo del instrumento empleado en los sacrificios humans. Mi, radical de milli. Tierra cultivada. Esta abajo del primer signo y entre ambos una planta berbacea que dice quil, radical de quilitl hierba comestible y pan sobre final, expresado por la superposición de tecpatl sobre toda la figure.
1530.
Carlos Ramirez Rubio, Presidente Municipal
1967-1969
Submitted: April 11, 2021, by J. Makali Bruton of Accra, Ghana.
Database Locator Identification Number: p578918
File Size: 5.023 Megabytes

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