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Art of the Ancient Americas
Cylinder vase,
600–800
Maya (Codex style)
Late Classic Period
y1975-32
Information
Title
Cylinder vase
Dates
600–800
Medium
Granular gray-buff ceramic, mineral inclusions, and orange-red and brown-black slip decoration
Dimensions
h. 12.3, diam. 12.5 cm (4 13/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of William and Mildred F. Kaplan
Object Number
y1975-32
Place Made
North America, Guatemala, Petén, Maya area, Nakbé region
Inscription
Text in front of maize god: YAX-TSUK/tu-KAB/tu-CH'EEN/K'UH ["it is the first gourd in the earth, in the cave of the god(s)"] (Saturno et al. 2007:33)
Reference Numbers
K0512
MS1402
MS1402
Culture
Period
Subject
Acquired by William Kaplan by April 1971; gift of William and Mildred F. Kaplan to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1975.
- Michael D. Coe, The Maya Scribe and His World (New York: The Grolier Club, 1973)., cat. no. 57, 117 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1975," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 35, no. 1 (1976): p. 22-31., p. 30
- Michael D. Coe, Lords of the Underworld: Masterpieces of Classic Maya Ceramics (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1978), cat. no. 20, p. 130
- Francis Robiscek, The Maya Book of the Dead: The Ceramic Codex (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Art Museum, 1981)., fig. 14, p. 113 (illus.)
- Karl A. Taube, "The Classic Maya Maize God: A Reappraisal," in Fifth Palenque Round Table, 1983, Volume VII, ed. Virginia M. Fields (San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1985): 171-181., fig. 2b, pp. 171–181 (illus. line drawing)
- Barbara Kerr and Justin Kerr, "Some Observations on Maya Vase Painters," in Maya Iconography, eds. Elizabeth P. Benson and Gillett G. Griffin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988)., figs. 7.11b and 7.13b, pp. 236–259 (illus.)
- David Stuart, "Blood Symbolism in Maya Iconography," in Maya Iconography, eds. Elizabeth P. Benson and Gillett G. Griffin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988): 175-221., fig. 5.48 (illus.)
- Sarah E. Jackson, "Imagining Courtly Communities: An Exploration of Classic Maya Experiences of Status and Identity through Painted Ceramic Vessels," Ancient Mesoamerica 20, no. 1 (Spring, 2009): p. 71-85., fig. 7, pp. 71–85 (illus. rollout line drawing)
