Stela 1 and Altar 1
Mound 58, Izapa; 3rd–mid-1st century B.C.
Andesite; height 661/8 and 28 3/4 in.
Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

Once viewed as a simple depiction of a "god of fishing," Stela 1 from Izapa is now described by scholars as a "very complex representation of all the forces related to water."