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Cylinder Vessel with Offering of Many Rabbits650–800 CE

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Cylindrical Maya ceramic vessel with cream slip, painted with a band of glyphs at the rim and a figural scene below showing a crouching figure and an animal rendered in dark brown and burnt orange
Title
Cylinder Vessel with Offering of Many Rabbits
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Guatemala, Peten, Xultun or vicinity
Date Made
650–800 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter: 4 in. (10.16 cm); 6 x 4 in. (15.24 x 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.660
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • 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.