Censer Symbolism and the State Polity in Teotihuacán

Recording and Cataloging

Despite the important implications of the discovery, data on the workshop have not been published, beside limited access to Múnera’s thesis from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), which briefly discusses the discovery. With the FAMSI grant, the applicant obtained permission from INAH in 1998 to approach again a part of the workshop materials, and was able to independently prepare additional photographic records and general statistical data of the workshop materials. Newly gathered materials were integrated into the catalog originally prepared by Múnera and Sugiyama in the 1980s. The first volume included in this final report presents the nearly final form of the publication in Spanish for México.

In addition, INAH further provided opportunities to go over the fragmented censer material, so-called "adornos," found by INAH excavations at various locations within the city. The major portion of the data was arranged to form the second volume of this report; general information of the catalogs is described very briefly in the next paragraphs as the analysis is still going on, and the final text for publication will be prepared when the research is concluded. It also should be mentioned that a significant amount of the information on the Teotihuacán-type censers found in museums and private collections in Guatemala was also obtained; however, the pictures and descriptive data were not included in this report, since they were taken with special authorization of the providers only as personal information for analyses and will not be published without their permission.

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