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Kerr Number:  6418
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  3
Height:  20.5 cm
Diameter:  14.2 cm
Circumference:  43.4 cm
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Publications:  The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p. 963
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Comments:  White background, ruler speaking to kneeling attendant three legged offering bowl with tamales. The bowl on the throne may contain chocolate (cacao)  CLICK for the shape of the vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Bundle, tribute, cache, Inscription - other text, Ruler, king, cacique, governor, potentate, Primary Standard Sequence, Offering to humans or gods, Throne, Vases, pots, ollas, plates, vessels

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 2002-12-16

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Kerr Number:  7456
Vase Type:  Carved
Figure Count:  1
Height:  25 cm
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Comments:  Early Classic covered vessel with monkey. The Monkey is probably holding a cacao pod.  
Iconographic Elements:  Monkey

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Added 2004-01-02

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Kerr Number:  7690
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  3
Height:  13 cm
Diameter:  12.5 cm
Circumference:  38.5 cm
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Comments:  Ruler wearing an AHAW headband receives offering of ? from an AJ k'hun. An attendant hovers over a narrow necked vessel with cacao pods? in it. (Black background}   
Iconographic Elements:  Inscription, any text other than PSS, Offering to humans or gods, Ah K'hun, orator

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 2007-11-08

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Kerr Number:  7784
Vase Type:  Carved
Figure Count:  0
Height:  15 cm
Diameter:  18.5 cm
Circumference:  53 cm
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Comments:  Esquintla style tripod bowl Tlaloc mask with cacao trees.  CLICK for shape of vessel.
Iconographic Elements:  Tlaloc - war symbol, Tree

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 2001-11-21

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Kerr Number:  8234
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  0
Height:  15.5 cm
Diameter:  21 cm
Circumference:  89 cm
MS Number:  0
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Publications:  The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p.1020
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Comments:  Large bowl. Suggest the oval shapes represent cacao beans.  
Iconographic Elements:  Monkey, Primary Standard Sequence

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1999-11-27

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Kerr Number:  8357
Vase Type:  Incised
Figure Count:  4
Height:  25 cm
Diameter:  9 cm
Circumference:  35.2 cm
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Comments:  Monkeys with cacao pod. see K6063 for similar vase.  
Iconographic Elements:  Monkey

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Added 2000-08-16

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Kerr Number:  9241
Vase Type:  Incised
Figure Count:  2
Height:  23.5 cm
Diameter:  20.5 cm
Circumference:  59.3 cm
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Owner:  The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Acc# 2009.20.39
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Publications:  Sharon Edgar Greenhill & Meredith Dreiss Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods. Univ of Arizona Press 2008. Chap 6 fig. 6.4
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Comments:  Early Classic covered vessel ringed with cacao pods and cacao imagery with two glyph panels  CLICK for stlls and glyph panels
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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 2011-03-23

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