Cylinder Vessel with Hero Twins and Lords of Death

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Cylinder Vessel with Hero Twins and Lords of Death

Maya, 600–900 CE
Ceramics
Slip-painted ceramic
Diameter: 6 1/2 in. (16.51 cm) Height: 10 3/8 in. (26.35 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost (M.2010.115.409)
Art of the Ancient Americas
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Freidel, David A., Linda Schele, and Joy Parker. Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path. New York: W. Morrow, 1993.
  • Taube, Karl A. "Ancient and contemporary Maya conceptions about field and forest." In The Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface, edited by Arturo Gómez-Pompa, Michael F. Allen, Scott L. Fedick, Juan J. Jiménez-Osornio, 461-92. Binghamton, NY: Food Products Press, 2003.
  • Freidel, David A., Linda Schele, and Joy Parker. Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path. New York: W. Morrow, 1993.
  • Taube, Karl A. "Ancient and contemporary Maya conceptions about field and forest." In The Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface, edited by Arturo Gómez-Pompa, Michael F. Allen, Scott L. Fedick, Juan J. Jiménez-Osornio, 461-92. Binghamton, NY: Food Products Press, 2003.
  • Houston, Stephen D., David Stuart, and Karl A. Taube. The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience Among the Classic Maya. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
  • 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.
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Exhibition history

  • The Ancient Maya World: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 1, 2012 - March 2, 2014