>>17794361>>17794357Here's a Mesamerican archeologist who has actually done excavations at Calixtlahuaca talking about it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230326091858/https://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/tval/RomanFigurine.html
tl;dr the dating is questionable, it's not even clear the statue is roman in style, or that it wasn't merely buried during the early colonial period. Even if it was deposited in pre-contact Mesoamerica, it's a lot more likely it was washed up from a shipwreck and buried by Mesoamericans as a ritual deposit, as many ceremonial objects were, including from older Mesoamerican civilizations which contemprary ones excavated or came across.
Smith himself doesn't actually mention this here, but I also don't see why the statue itself couldn't be made by Mesoamericans: They could and did sometimes grow facial hair and it's seen not infrequently in paintings, murals, and sculptures/figures. The style of this sculpture isn't especially Mesoamerican looking, but, say, Maya sculptures sometimes had similar levels of realistic anatomy.
>>17794307>>17794315>>17795674Central Mexican and Oaxacan architecture does look like some Bronze age Mediterranean styles, but the chronology is obviously extremely off: Knossos etc is from 1800BC, the style of Central Mexican architecture that looks similar is from like 300AD onwards
The Codex Borgia depiction and other similar depictions in codices is very stylized, and are meant to depict tall Mesoamerican pyramids, not small shrines like the Amrit temple there. You can look at ceramic figues of temples and see what the profile views in codices is meant to portray, see https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/316872. And as
>>17795674 says, the chronology is still off even for Amrit