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Cylinder vase depicting maize god with bundle

2012-3
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Information

Object Number
2012-3
Medium
Ceramic with polychrome slip
Dates

A.D. 600–800

Dimensions
15.6 × diam. 11.6 cm (6 1/8 × 4 9/16 in.)
Culture
Maya
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund
Place Excavated

North America, Mexico or Guatemala, Maya area

Type
vases, ceramics, polychrome
Subject
lightning, vignettes, figures (representations), red, white (color), black, ceremonial objects, gods, sacred objects, men, mythology, iconography, hieroglyphics
Materials
slip, ceramic, polychrome, pigment

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24416388

"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2012," <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 71/72 (2012-13): p. 105-132., p. 119 (illus.)

2988 2012

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