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The Bennett Stela , a huge monolithic Tiahuanaco sculpture, was contemporaneous with Kalasasaya. Found resting in the semi-subterranean courtyard, this 24 foot high monolith depicts a rigidly frontal figure holding a kero (beaker) in one hand and a knife in the other. Its legs bear relief designs suggesting metal disks; over the rest of its body are incised birds, fish, anthropomorphic jaguars, human beings, and geometric patterns. The kero held by the Bennett Stela deity is identical in form to one of the major ceramic types manufactured at Tiahuanaco.
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