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Pendant with hieroglyphs
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Pectoral with 5 legible glyphs. This jewellery pendant is made of dark green serpentine and contains the phrase u-MIHIN ?-K'AB' ?-AJAW ya-AJAW SIH-ya-ja (he is the son of ?Earth-Ruler?, the vassal of "X-Born") (cf. Grube/Gaida, Die Maya. Schrift und Kunst, p.96f.).

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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Stone plaque
Dimensions
Gewicht: 0,12 kg
Objektmaß: 17,5 x 6,8 x 0,6 cm
Material/Technique
Stone
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 50170

Provenance and sources

when
Early classical period
where
Guatemala
who
Maya

who
Marie Luise Zarnitz - Former Possessors

Description
Donation on 27/04/2005

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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