The famous greenstone figure known as the Tuxtla Statuette is one of only 12 objects known to bear an epi-Olmec inscription and was the first to become known to scholarship. For more than a century its original find-spot was imprecisely and erroneously identified as lying in the township of San Andrés Tuxtla or, more generally, in the Tuxtla Mountains. Correspondence in the National Anthropology Archives of the Smithsonian Institution documents that the figure was found on the Hacienda de Hueyapan de Mimendi, near the colossal head of Tres Zapotes. Archival research in Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology and the Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz, as well as interviews with descendants of owners of the Hacienda de Hueyapan and the statuette, allow us to confirm several features of the Smithsonian correspondence. The data indicate that the statuette was found within or very near the epi-Olmec regional center of Tres Zapotes and within the township of Santiago Tuxtla.

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Tres Zapotes 周边地区是 Tuxtla 雕像的发现地

著名的绿石雕像被称为 Tuxtla 雕像，是仅有的 12 件已知带有 Epi-Olmec 铭文的物体之一，并且是第一个为学术界所知的物体。一个多世纪以来，它的原始发现地点被不准确且错误地确定为位于圣安德烈斯图斯特拉镇，或者更普遍地说，位于图斯特拉山脉。史密森尼学会国家人类学档案馆的通讯记录表明，这个人形是在靠近特雷斯萨波特斯巨首的 Hacienda de Hueyapan de Mimendi 发现的。在墨西哥国家人类学博物馆和 Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz 的档案研究，以及对 Hacienda de Hueyapan 和小雕像所有者后代的采访，使我们能够确认史密森尼信件的几个特征。