Tetitla Apartment Compound (Teotihuacan)
Tetitla · Teotihuacan Apartment Compounds · Tetitla Palace
Classic Teotihuacan (Tlamimilolpa)·Teotihuacano (multi-ethnic)·🇲🇽 State of Mexico, Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico
About
About Tetitla Apartment Compound (Teotihuacan)
One of 2,000 apartment compounds that made Teotihuacan (100 BCE–550 CE, 200,000 inhabitants — largest city in Americas) a planned grid city. Tetitla (200–450 CE) preserved intact murals — Tlaloc and jaguar processions, Maya-like glyphs — and courtyard with puma-mosaic murals after which Teotihuacan was 'place where men become gods'. Illustrates urban barrio system with state-supplied housing. Avenue of the Dead axis.
Why it mattersState housing urbanism; mural art; Classic Mesoamerica collapse.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Why Tlaloc-Jaguar militaristic cult intensifies
- 02Maya presence at Tetitla glyphs?
Theories
- 01Barrio ethnic enclave model
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.200–350 CE (Early Tlamimilolpa)
- Period
- Classic Teotihuacan (Tlamimilolpa)
- Culture
- Teotihuacano (multi-ethnic)
- Builders
- Teotihuacan state architects
- Purpose
- State apartment block for elite or artisan barrio
- Abandoned
- c.550 CE (city-wide fire and collapse)
- Rediscovered
- 1884 Charnay; Tetitla 1940s Séjourné
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c.350 CE
Tetitla murals painted
c.550 CE
City burning
On the ground
Structures & features
19.6920° N · 98.8430° W · 2280 m · 3 mapped features
Puma-mosaic patio
patioJaguar-puma procession murals
19.6922° N · 98.8432° WTlaloc mural apartment
muralTlaloc headdress murals
19.6919° N · 98.8429° WAvenue of the Dead front
avenueCauseway facing Tetitla gate
19.6921° N · 98.8435° W
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