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ID: 700009685
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009685
Record Type: Built Work
Totocalco (storehouse; unknown Aztec; under Montezuma II; 15th century; Mexico City (Distrito Federal, México, North and Central ...;)
Note: Storehouse in 16th-century Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City). Totocalco and Totocalli were terms used interchangeably in different sources to refer to one of two places, the first was a storehouse to the east of the main temple precinct where Mexica precious goods were kept, while the other was housed birds of the realm.
Titles:
Totocalco (preferred,C,U,Classical Nahuatl,U,U)
Totocalli (C,U,undetermined,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
storehouse [300265138] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, storage facilities)
destroyed work [300404029]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by state>)

Classifications:
architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: 15th century

Creator Display:
unknown Aztec; under Montezuma II [preferred]
builders unknown Aztec (Aztec cultural designation) [500202913]
patron Montezuma II (Mexica ruler, 1466-1520 (ruled 1502-1520)) [500128651]
Locations:
Other: Original: Tenochtitlan [7668941] Mexico City (inhabited place), Distrito Federal (national district), Mexico (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Current: Ciudad de México [7007227] Distrito Federal (national district), Mexico (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Address Note: 19° 25′ 57″ north, 99° 07′ 54″ west
Display Materials: masonry construction
masonry construction (technique or process) [300404383]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>, assembling (additive and joining process), construction (assembling), <construction technique by form or materials>)

Dimensions: unavailable
General Subject:
architecture (preferred,isness)

Related Works:
distinguished from .... Totocalco [700009686]
..........aviary; unknown Aztec; under Montezuma II; 15th century; Mexico City (Distrito Federal, México, North and Central ...;

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Built Works
.......... Built Works by class: landscape architecture, spaces, agricultural, and animal husbandry structures
Sources and Contributors:
Totocalco........ [VP,GRI-FloCo]
........ GRI, FloCo terminology (2019-)
........ Sahagún, Historia general (1989) v3:1189
........ Siméon, Diccionario nahuatl (1992) v13:49
Totocalli........ [GRI-FloCo]
........ GRI, FloCo terminology (2019-)
Subject: ....... [VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP,GRI-FloCo]
..... GRI, FloCo terminology (2019-)
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