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Location: Discovered by Stirling on January 16, 1939 in front of lower Stela C fragment. Altar 1 is presently set up on one edge in the Tres Zapotes site museum and is commonly known as Stela B.
Associations: Altar to Stela C Fragment 1.
Condition: Top surface badly chipped and flaked.
Photographs: Present report, Plate 8; Stirling 1939:212, 1940: Figures 1, 2.
Drawings: None.
References: Stirling 1939, 1940.
Carved Areas: None
Material: This monument was not tested by Williams. However, there is nothing about it to suggest that its material is any different than that of Monument 1.
Dimensions: Diameter 150 cm, Thickness 25 cm.
Description: Altar 1 is a large circular altar. The upper surface of this altar has been chipped away at some point after it was placed in front of Fragment 1 of Stela C. The remaining face is smoothed and shows two cupped depressions, one of which may be artificial. The sides are also worked to produce its circular outline.
Remarks: Altars are not recognized as a sculpture category by students of Tres Zapotes Sculpture. Hence, Altar 1 has previously received no number and little attention.
