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Location: None recorded, moved to Regional museum prior to August 1984.
Associations: None recorded.
Condition: Face removed and surface ground flat, both arms broken at wrist , tenon broken.
Photographs: Present report, Plate 49.
Drawings: de la Fuente 1973.
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 90 cm, Width 80 cm, Depth 130 cm.
Description: Cerro el Vigia Monument 2 is a horizontal tenon sculpture rendered in the geometric substyle of Olmec art and in the form of a prostrate human figure with the arms doubled at its sides. The arms are represented in low flat relief and the hands have been removed by abrasion. The tenon is rectangular in cross section and the head projects upward from the axis of the tenon. Most of the face has been removed by abrasion but the back of the head is flat. Rectangular blocks representing the ear complex remain on the sides of the head.
Remarks: Cerro el Vigia Monument 3 was identified as a seated figure by its discoverer and now rests on its face, cemented to a platform in the courtyard of the regional museum in Santiago Tuxtla.
