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Cylindrical vessel with way scene

Cylindrical vase from Uaxactun with a vermilion-red background. The outlines of the four figures, which represent the doppelgangers of fate in animal form, are outlined in black colour in the Uaxactun style. All four figures are looking in one direction. They probably embody four illnesses that came from the underworld in Mayan imagination. The band of writing on the upper part of the vessel consists of pseudo-hieroglyphs. This is evidence of a relevant market demand from an illiterate clientele who wanted to imitate the style of the sacred inscriptions.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
crock
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 22,3 x 14,7 x 14,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 50418

Provenance and sources

when
Late Classical
where
Mexico
who
Maya

who
Dr. Claus Pelling - Former Possessors

Description
Donation on 06.07.2005

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