The form and features of this funerary mask, cut straight across the forehead with wide-set oval eyes under a soft brow ridge; slightly aquiline nose with drilled nostrils; full lips and delicately modelled philtrum; and drilled ears are all characteristic of masks from this region. It was deposited in the grave of one of the ruling members of society. Teotihuacán was the largest and most architecturally sophisticated Mesoamerican city before the arrival of Western Europeans.