Photographer: Martin Franken | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalCylindrical clay vessel with polychrome painting in red, white and black on an orange background; fourteen people are depicted in a surrounding scene; in the centre is a head depicted in profile with a wide-open maw in which the god Chak is sitting, gesticulating animatedly; a hieroglyphic band (consecration text) runs around the upper edge of the vessel; various hieroglyphic texts are scattered throughout the scene; the preparations for an enema ritual are depicted by the god Chak, four Pawathun (old gods), six women and three Chak gods playing music.
Cataloguing data
Height: 24,2 cm
Depth: 18 cm
Width: 18 cm
Provenance and sources
Production
Collecting
Change of legal title:
Acquisition
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology
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