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Stone vessel with hieroglyphs
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Alabaster vessel with 8 incised hieroglyphic cartouches. Four-footed vessel. This vessel is probably one of the earliest vessels decorated with a hieroglyphic inscription (primary standard sequence).

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Stone vessel
Dimensions
Gewicht: 0,5 kg
Objektmaß: 7,5 x 11 x 10,6 cm
Material/Technique
Alabaster
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 44342

Provenance and sources

when
Early classical period
where
Mexico
Campeche [Bundesstaat]
Isla de Piedra [Insel]
who
Maya

who
Stolper Galleries (Robert L. Stolper) - Former Possessors

Description
Purchase 1961

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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