A stone figure jutting out of a wall portrays a stylized owl holding the head of a person in its open mouth. Some red pigment remains visible on the human head, any other pigment has faded

Image credit: Luis Gerardo Peña Torres

The entrance to the antechamber is presided over by a powerful representation, clear in its meaning: an owl, a bird that in the Zapotec imagination encapsulated the concepts of night and death. This figure is not a mere ornament; its beak ritually covers the stuccoed and painted face of a male individual, a probable portrait of the principal figure interred in the tomb.

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