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Sone torso with hieroglyphs and ancestor

The stone torso is identified by the double-row hieroglyphic text as a portrait of the wife of the ruler of an unknown place. From the upper end of the torso, probably below the place where the figure's head once stood, an ancestor figure carved in half relief and framed by two zoomorphic heads looks down on the text. Depictions of ancestors looking down and presumably communicating with the world of the living from the sky are a characteristic of the iconography of the early Maya Classic.

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Stone torso
Dimensions
Height: 23,8 cm
Depth: 6,7 cm
Width: 11,5 cm
Weight: 2,8 kg
Weight: 2,7 kg
Material/Technique
Stone
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 50149

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Early classical period
    where
    Guatemala
    who
    Maya
  • Collecting
    who
    Marie Luise Zarnitz - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation on 02.12.2004
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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