Cylinder Vessel with K'awiil600–900 CE

Not on view

Title: Cylinder Vessel with K'awiil
Culture: Maya
Place Made: Guatemala, Western Petén, Piedras Negras region
Date Made: 600–900 CE
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions: Height: 7 in. (17.78 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Art Museum Council in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary
Accession Number: M.90.168.17
Classification: Ceramics
Collecting Area: Art of the Ancient Americas
Curatorial Notes: Featuring the profile of a long-nosed underworld deity, the vessel also has two columns containing a repeated hieroglyph read as kimi, or death.

2008
Selected Bibliography: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992, vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).
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.

Not on view

Title: Cylinder Vessel with K'awiil
Culture: Maya
Place Made: Guatemala, Western Petén, Piedras Negras region
Date Made: 600–900 CE
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions: Height: 7 in. (17.78 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Art Museum Council in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary
Accession Number: M.90.168.17
Classification: Ceramics
Collecting Area: Art of the Ancient Americas
Curatorial Notes: Featuring the profile of a long-nosed underworld deity, the vessel also has two columns containing a repeated hieroglyph read as kimi, or death.

2008
Selected Bibliography: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992, vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).
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.