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Location: Monument 29 was found by an employee of Petroleos Mexicanos on the east bank of the Arroyo Hueapan just west of Structure 45 in 1978 and it was placed in the site museum during the same year.
Associations: None recorded.
Condition: Well preserved, tenon broken.
Photographs: Present report, Plate 36.
Drawings: Present report, Figures 36, 37, 38, 39.
Carved Areas: Sculpture in the round.
Material: This monument was found subsequent to Williams' work. However, there is nothing about it to suggest that its material is any different than that of Monument 1.
Dimensions: Height 74 cm, Width 37 cm, Depth 42 cm, Width 26 cm, Depth 21 cm. Head height 42 cm, Head width 22 cm, Head depth 18 cm.
Description: Monument 29 is a vertical tenon sculpture in the geometric substyle of Olmec art in the form of an upright figure with the arms doubled at its sides and its hands on its belly. The arms are rendered in flat relief and the hands are simple lumps with little indication of digits. The figure wears a necklace of three roughly rectangular elements and the head is flat with a horizontal axis. The face is flat and very abstract with a semicircle at the upper right, an arc at the lower left and a filled "U" element in a cartouche at the bottom. Very slight horizontal bands along the sides of the head provide a suggestion of ears.
Remarks: The face of Monument 29 is very unusual and its present appearance probably results from recarving. The primary masses of Monument 29 are virtually identical to the primary masses of Tlapacoya Monument 1. This similarity suggests Monument 29 may have been created as an upright zoomorphic tenoned bust with the head on a horizontal axis. Subsequently, the features of the head, concentrated on its upper surface were erased through abrasion and the present face added in a cruder grooving technique. The present face is reminiscent of a set of abstract asymmetrical faces from Cara Sucia in El Salvador.
