| Object Name: | Monte Alban. View of System IV from the north platform |
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| Creation Date: | 100-900 AD | |
| Culture: | Zapotec | |
| Site: | Monte Alban | |
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| Image source: | © Dr. Manuel Aguilar | |
| System IV is a complex that consists of a main pyramid, an enclosed court and an accessing platform. With System IV, for the first time we have some ornamentation on the facade. It is a talud-tablero temple similar to structures in Teotihuacan. System IV has been considered an amphitheater, where supplicants would gather in the closed court while attending rites performed on the principal structure. | ||
