
Collection Online as of August 12, 2022
c. AD 200-500 (Thermoluminescence date, 60 BC-AD 390)
Earthenware
Overall: 26.1 x 16.3 x 16.3 cm (10 1/4 x 6 7/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.277
233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
The figure projecting from the front of a cylindrical container wears a mouth mask perhaps shaped as a serpent’s fanged upper jaw. It probably served in a tomb as a companion to a larger, more complex figural urn. Though termed "urns," these ceramics do not contain the cremated ashes of the dead but usually are found empty.