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Maya Vessel CDWA / Maya Vessel

Object/Work Catalog Level: item
Type: cup
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Classification Terms: ceramics
             Pre-Columbian art
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Titles or Names Text: Vessel with Mythological Scene of the Maya Underworld
    Preference: preferred
    Type: repository
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Creation Creator Description: unknown Maya Free text
  Identity: unknown Maya
    Roles: artist
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  Creation Date: 8th century 
Earliest: 0700  Latest: 0799
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  Creation Place/Original Location: Petén Department (Guatemala) Authority
Measurements Dimensions Description: 14 cm (height) (5 1/2 inches) Free text
  Value: 14 Unit: cm Type: height Controlled format
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Materials and Techniques Description: terracotta Free text
  Material Name: terracotta
Technique Name:
vase painting
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Subject Matter Indexing Terms:
          religion/mythology
          object (utilitarian)
          Xibalbá (Maya iconography)
          underworld
          skeleton
          death
          ax
          altar
          celebration
          sacrifice
          Baby Jaguar
          ceremonial object
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Descriptive Note Text: Straight-sided ceramic vessels with painted decoration comprising complex scenes were common in eighth-century Maya art. The "codex-style" painting depicts a scene in the realm of the Lords of Death, where a dancing figure holds a long-handled axe and a handstone. On a monster-head altar lies Baby Jaguar, a deity figure, and beside the altar is a dancing, a skeletal death figure. The meaning has been variously interpreted as depicting either sacrifice or celebration. Free text
  Citations: Metropolitan Museum of Art online
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accessed 10 February 2005
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Current Location Repository Name/Geographic Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection (New York, New York, United States)
Repository Numbers: 1978.412.206
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