Cylinder Vessel Depicting Cormorants and Water Signs

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Cylinder Vessel Depicting Cormorants and Water Signs

Guatemala or Belize, Holmul style, Maya, 600–900 CE
Ceramics
Slip-painted ceramic
Diameter: 3 1/2 in. (8.89 cm) Height: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost (M.2010.115.573)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Helmke, Christophe, and Jaime Awe. "Ancient Maya territorial organisation of Central Belize: confluence of archaeological and epigraphic data." Contributions in New World Archaeology 4 (2012): 59-90.
  • Helmke, Christophe, and Jaime Awe. "Ancient Maya territorial organisation of Central Belize: confluence of archaeological and epigraphic data." Contributions in New World Archaeology 4 (2012): 59-90.
  • O'Neil, Megan E. Forces of Nature: Ancient Maya Arts from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Beijing Shi: Wen wu chu ban she, 2018.
  • Magaloni, Diana, Davide Domenici, and Alyce de Carteret. We Live in Painting: the Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.
  • Reents-Budet, Dorie.  Painting the Maya Universe:  Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period.  Durham:  Duke University Press, 1994.
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