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Clay figure

Colour: 7.5 YR 6.5/4, pink / light brown. Production technique: Moulded model Function: Pipe Type: E Pose: Sitting, short arms on body, hands on stomach. Compact fat man with short legs, in front of the body, the soles of his feet facing each other. Clothing: Headdress, turban-like, lines divide the covering into three irregular fields with dots. A wreath runs around the headdress, which is divided into 9 small, cushion-like fields. Upper body naked. Hip belt wide, with apron in the centre. Jewellery: ear studs. Forehead bead. Rectangular breast pendant. No remains of a necklace are not. Remarks: Figure weathered and damaged in the foot area. Provenance: Cumbalan (Sambale 2003)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 9,5 cm
Depth: 4,1 cm
Width: 5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4885

Provenance and sources

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

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