- Title
- Squared Vessel with Mythological Birth Scenes
- Culture
- Maya
- Date Made
- 600–900 CE
- Medium
- Slip-painted ceramic
- Dimensions
- 10 × 4 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (25.4 × 10.8 × 10.8 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2010.115.452
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Ancient Americas
- Selected Bibliography
- Reents-Budet, Dorie. Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
- Bassie-Sweet, Karen. Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.
García Valgañón, Rocío. "Las Ancianas Mayas Prehispánicas en la Iconografía y las Fuentes Coloniales." Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, no. 15, 2017, pp. 95-127.
- Houston, Stephen. The Gifted Passage: Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
- Taube, Karl A. "The Birth Vase: Natal Imagery in Ancient Maya Myth and Ritual." In The Maya Vase Book: a Corpus of Rollout Photographs of Maya Vases, edited by Justin Kerr, 650-685. New York: Kerr Associates, 1994.
- Chinchilla Mazariegos, Oswaldo. Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
- Magaloni Kerpel, Diana, and Megan E. O'Neil, editors. The Science and Art of Maya Painted Ceramic Vessels: Contextualizing a Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022. https://www.archive.org/details/maya-painted-ceramic-vessels (accessed November 21, 2022).