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Kerr Number:  206
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  7
Height:  19.5 cm
Diameter:  0
Circumference:  0
MS Number:  0
Owner:  The Art Institute, Chicago
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Publications:  Coe 73 The Maya Scribe and His Worldno.32
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Comments:  Scaffold torture and sacrifice  
Iconographic Elements:  Blood, Bundle, Tribute, Cache, Dwarf, Inscription - Other Text, Musicians, Prisoners Or Captives, Sacrifice, Drum

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-01-19

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Kerr Number:  530
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  14
Height:  24 cm
Diameter:  16.7 cm
Circumference:  0
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Publications:  Coe 78 The Lords of the Underworld
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Comments:  4 toothless old deities prepare for a ceremony to Itzamná. 2 will take enemas, 1 is inhaling drugs,the last looks like he is applying make-up while looking into a mirror, all to the accompaniment of musicians.  
Iconographic Elements:  Female, Birds, Conch Shell, Enema Scene Or Apparatus, God D, Itzamnah, God N, Inscription - Other Text, Principal Bird Deity, Vucub Caquix, Itzam Ye, Mirror, Musicians, Primary Standard Sequence

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1999-01-03

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Kerr Number:  791
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  9
Height:  20 cm
Diameter:  16 cm
Circumference:  50 cm
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Owner:  The Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ PUAM# y1993-17
School:  Altar
Publications:  Maya Book of the Dead Fig 22a.
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Site:  IK
Comments:  My Interpretation: The Hero Twins as ways performing in different guises along with Water lily jaguar, God A and eagle. Date painted is 9.16.3.13.14. 4Ix 12 Kumk'u or Jan, 18, 755  CLICK for the shape of the vessel.
Iconographic Elements:  Birds, Blood, Conch Shell, Dog, Canine, Emblem Glyph, God A, Generally Skeletal, Hand Stone, Tri-lobe, Inscription - Other Text, Jaguar, Water Lily Jaguar, Musicians, Penis Perforator, Twins - Hunahpú & Xbalanqué, Vision Serpent, Way, Alter Ego, Nagual, Primary Standard Sequence, Snake

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-06-09

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Kerr Number:  1208
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  3
Height:  20.5 cm
Diameter:  11.5 cm
Circumference:  0
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Publications:  Lords of the Underworld fig.17, Old Gods and Young Heroes p.28
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Comments:  Note the cab signs in the rabbit's ear  CLICK for the shape of the vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Monkey, Musicians, Rabbit, Drum

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1999-06-25

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Kerr Number:  1210
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  4
Height:  24.2 cm
Diameter:  11.3 cm
Circumference:  36.5 cm
MS Number:  0
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Publications:  Old Gods and Young Heroes, Coe 82
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Comments:  Palace scene with musicians  CLICK for the shape of the vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Curtains, In Palace Scenes, Inscription - Other Text, Musicians, Ruler, King, Cacique, Governor, Potentate, Throne

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-07-10

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Kerr Number:  1453
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  7
Height:  24 cm
Diameter:  17 cm
Circumference:  49.2 cm
MS Number:  0
Owner:  Australian National Museum 82.22.92
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Site:  IK
Comments:   Palace drunken party. Honey is fermenting in the narrow necked ollas. Ruler watches as a dwarf drinks from gourd  CLICK for the shape of the vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Ah K'hun, Orator, Conch Shell, Curtains, In Palace Scenes, Dwarf, Emblem Glyph, Inscription - Other Text, Mirror, Musicians, Ruler, King, Cacique, Governor, Potentate, Upended Frog, Birth Glyph T740, Drinking Alcohol, Drunkard, Throne

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-01-19

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Kerr Number:  1549
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  4
Height:  18 cm
Diameter:  11 cm
Circumference:  34 cm
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Comments:  Long nose dance. Dressed as the God Ek Chuah, the dancer acts out the impregnation of Lady Xquic.  
Iconographic Elements:  Female, Birds, Inscription - Other Text, Musicians, Drum

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-05-15

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Kerr Number:  1563
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  9
Height:  21.5 cm
Diameter:  26.6 cm
Circumference:  0
MS Number:  0
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Comments:  Palace scene with musicians  
Iconographic Elements:  Dwarf, Enema Scene Or Apparatus, Inscription - Other Text, Musicians, Ruler, King, Cacique, Governor, Potentate

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-06-10

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Kerr Number:  1645
Vase Type:  Codex Style
Figure Count:  5
Height:  13.4 cm
Diameter:  12 cm
Circumference:  34.1 cm
MS Number:  0
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Publications:  Maya Book of the Dead Vessel 17.
Calender Round:  7 Cib 8 Kayab
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Comments:  A mythological sacrifice scene with the bundled Patron of Pax and G1. An infant rests in a cache vessel on a tripod, while musicians sleep and watch. Musical instruments in form of turtle carapace and jaguar skin covered drum.  
Iconographic Elements:  Bundle, Tribute, Cache, Curtains, In Palace Scenes, Inscription - Other Text, Musicians, Prisoners Or Captives, Sacrifice, Upended Frog, Birth Glyph T740, Drum, Chak, Chac, Rain God, Throne

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-07-10

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Kerr Number:  1838
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  4
Height:  17 cm
Diameter:  9.4 cm
Circumference:  30.1 cm
MS Number:  0
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Iconographic Elements:  Inscription - Other Text, Musicians, Way, Alter Ego, Nagual

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-05-20

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