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Seated female

Colour: 7.5 YR 6/4, light brown. Blue colour residue on the shoulder cape. Production technique: Hand modelled Function: Pipe Type: C Pose: Seated. Legs bent so that the left leg is in front of the right. Hands on knees Clothing: Shoulder cape wide, long at the front and back, cut wide at the top. Skirt/petticoat (?), hem recognisable on left foot. Jewellery: ear studs. Single-row pearl necklace with pendant. This has small round holes so that it looks like a small face. Three other small round beads hang from it. Cuff bracelets made of rectangular and elongated, narrow material. Remarks: Stepped hairstyle with raised head and wide, rectangular groove. Provenance: Palenque (Sambale 2003)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 17,8 cm
Depth: 7,5 cm
Width: 10 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4969

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Late Classical
    where
    Mexico
    Yucatán
    who
    Maya
  • Collecting
    who
    Florentino Jimeno - Collectors
  • Finding
    where
    Jalton
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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