The Esperanza Stone was a large (8-feet long) inscribed stone found in the valley of the Yaqui , Mexico. It was discovered and excavated in 1909 by Major F. R. Burnham and Charles Frederick Holder .
3-536: The stone was discovered during an expedition in the Yaqui valley. The stone was "a brown, igneous rock, its longest axis about eight feet, and on the eastern face, which had an angle of about forty-five degrees, was the deep-cut inscription." Symbols on the stone include a volute and a swastika , also found on other stones in Mexico. There was a legend that the stone had fallen down out of heaven in times past, and that
6-589: The Corinthian capital. The word derives from the Latin voluta ("scroll"). It has been suggested that the ornament was inspired by the curve of a ram 's horns, or perhaps was derived from the natural spiral found in the ovule of a common species of clover native to Greece . Alternatively, it may simply be of geometrical origin. The ornament can be seen in Renaissance and Baroque architecture and
9-582: The carving was by human hands. Burnham believed that the symbols were Mayan. Others class them as Petroglyphs . Volute A volute is a spiral, scroll-like ornament that forms the basis of the Ionic order , found in the capital of the Ionic column. It was later incorporated into Corinthian order and Composite column capitals. Four are normally to be found on an Ionic capital, eight on Composite capitals and smaller versions (sometimes called helix ) on
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