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Cylinder Vessel600–900 CE

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Painted Maya ceramic vessel fragment, unrolled, showing two kneeling supernatural figures flanked by scrolling serpentine forms, with a row of hieroglyphs along the top, in rust-orange, black, and cream
Title
Cylinder Vessel
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Date Made
600–900 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter: 4 in. (10.16 cm); 8 4/5 x 4 x 4 in. (22.352 x 10.16 x 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.916.1
Classification
Ceramics
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.

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