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Panel with Royal Woman

c. 795
sculptor

and Jun Nat Omootz

Guatemala or Mexico, Usumacinta River region, Maya style
limestone
Overall: 60.4 x 69.8 cm (23 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1962.32
Location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
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This panel, likely from a palace interior, depicts a royal Maya woman.

Description

In this panel, probably from a palace interior, the woman’s static posture contrasts with the liveliness of the creature she holds, a god of royalty with a serpent leg and a grotesque head with a smoking torch on its brow. (The same deity is shown in the nearby Eccentric Flint.) Other signs of high rank are her jade jewelry and costume, its beauty suggesting that textiles and featherwork were great Maya arts, now lost to a tropical climate. The hieroglyphics refer to an undefined ritual that the woman completed in 795.
Panel with Royal Woman

Panel with Royal Woman

c. 795

K’in Lakam Chahk, Jun Nat Omootz

Guatemala or Mexico, Usumacinta River region, Maya style

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