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Codex-Style Bowl with Dedication Text650–800 CE

Not on view
Ceramic bowl with cream slip exterior painted with a continuous frieze of curvilinear figures and glyphs in dark brown-black, with red-painted rim and base bands
Title
Codex-Style Bowl with Dedication Text
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Guatemala or Mexico, Northern Peten or Southern Campeche
Date Made
650–800 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
4 1/5 x 7 3/10 x 7 3/10 in. (10.668 x 18.542 x 18.542 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.570
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Robicsek, Francis, and Donald M. Hales. The Maya Book of the Dead: The Ceramic Codex: The Corpus of Codex Style Ceramics of the Late Classic Period. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Art Museum, 1981.
  • 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.