Currently not on view
Funerary urn,
ca. 300 BCE
Maya
Late Formative Period
y1967-144
Information
Title
Funerary urn
Dates
ca. 300 BCE
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
Overall: h. 28.5 cm. (11 1/4 in.)
body: h. 23.5 cm., w. 17 cm. (9 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.)
lid: h. 26.5 cm., w. 19 cm. (10 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Gerard B. Lambert in memory of her husband, Class of 1908
Object Number
y1967-144
Place Made
North America, Mexico, Tabasco
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
- Gillett G. Griffin, "Funerary Urn in the Form of a House," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 2, Notes on Recent Acquistions (1968): 58-59., p. 59 (illus.)
- Alfreda J. Murck, "Acquisitions 1967," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 1 (1968): p. 35-41., p. 41
- Carlo T. E. Gay, "Mezcala architecture in miniature", Mémoires de la Classe des beaux-arts: Collection in-8o 15 (n.s. 2), no. 3 (1987): p. 232., cat no. 55, pp. 15–16 (illus.)
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Joanne Pillsbury, Patricia Joan Sarro, James A. Doyle, and Juliet B. Wiersema, Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas (New York; New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, 2015).
, fig. 53
