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Cylinder Vessel
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
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Cylinder Vessel

Artist/Maker (Mesoamerica)
Dateca. 650-850
Mediumpottery and paint
DimensionsOverall: 7 x 6 1/8 in. (17.8 x 15.6 cm)
ClassificationsContainers
Credit LineMuseum purchase through the Thea Katzenstein Art Acquisition Endowment Fund
Terms
    Object number2009.26
    DescriptionThis codex-style vase shows an older lord with headdress and axe characteristic of the rain god Chahk, with two attendants behind him. The attendants wear the sarong and tonsured hair of palace scribes and may be in attendance at a ceremony in order to commemorate the performance of this rite. Before the lord are three figures dressed as hunters and a central figure in the process of embodying the Maize Deity. Four glyphic captions frame the actors.
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    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Artist Unknown
    early 18th century
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Maya (archaeological culture)
    ca. 600-900
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Maya (archaeological culture)
    ca. 600-900
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Colima
    ca. 300 BCE-300 CE
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Jacopo Palma il Vecchio
    ca. 1510
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Maya (archaeological culture)
    ca. 600-900
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Maya (archaeological culture)
    ca. 600-900
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Artist Unknown
    3rd to 2nd century BCE
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Maya (archaeological culture)
    ca. 600-900
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Maya (archaeological culture)
    ca. 600-900
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Rocco Marconi
    ca. 1525