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Kerr Number:  7288
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  6
Height:  0
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Owner:  LACMA
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Publications:  The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p.996
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Comments:  Ruler wears peccary headdress as war chief talks to 3 warriors  Click here for the shape of the vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Bundle, tribute, cache, Cloth, Mirror, Ruler, king, cacique, governor, potentate, Trophy head

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-01-19

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Kerr Number:  7431
Vase Type:  Polychrome
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Height:  19.4 cm
Diameter:  11.4 cm
Circumference:  35.8 cm
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Comments:  Frog eating frog, bird dancer, NOT FOR PUBLICATION  
Iconographic Elements:  Birds, God A, generally skeletal, Toad, Snake

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-01-19

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Kerr Number:  7434
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  4
Height:  22 cm
Diameter:  9.5 cm
Circumference:  30.9 cm
MS Number:  0
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Publications:  The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p.997
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Comments:  The Holmul style Maize god impersonator or the Maize god dancing. The major bird deity in the backrack is shown as macaw  
Iconographic Elements:  Dwarf, Inscription - other text, Principal Bird Deity, Vucub Caquix, Itzam Ye, Primary Standard Sequence

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 2000-01-15

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Kerr Number:  7447
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  2
Height:  23 cm
Diameter:  11.2 cm
Circumference:  36.1 cm
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Comments:  Mask maker, text may describe him as worker in clay, wax, or masa (stucco?) Walls covered with jaguar pelt and Yax signs. Rim text is k'ul signs.  CLICK for a discussion of the text
Iconographic Elements:  Bundle, tribute, cache, Codex - book, Inscription - other text, Scribes, artists, carvers, Throne

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Added 1998-01-19

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Kerr Number:  7459
Vase Type:  Polychrome
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Height:  24.3 cm
Diameter:  11 cm
Circumference:  36.8 cm
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Comments:  Red on white, 2 deity heads with/ slanting text, muyal (cloud) band under PSS  CLICK for Eric Boot's discussion of the knot-eye glyph
Iconographic Elements:  Inscription - other text, Primary Standard Sequence

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-01-19

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Kerr Number:  7460
Vase Type:  Polychrome
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Height:  7 cm
Diameter:  20.5 cm
Circumference:  57 cm
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Publications:  The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p.998
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Comments:  Bowl with Primary Standard Sequence intermingled with waterbirds  Click here for the shape of the vessel.
Iconographic Elements:  Birds, Primary Standard Sequence

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Added 2000-01-15

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Kerr Number:  7461
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  4
Height:  21 cm
Diameter:  14.7 cm
Circumference:  45.2 cm
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Comments:  Blackware covered with stucco. Palace scene with ruler on throne, a bundle.  CLICK HERE for the shape of the vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Bundle, tribute, cache, Inscription - other text, Ruler, king, cacique, governor, potentate, Throne

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Added 2001-09-17

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Kerr Number:  7516
Vase Type:  Polychrome
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Height:  20 cm
Diameter:  14 cm
Circumference:  46 cm
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Comments:  While attendants hold torches, a ruler places his hand on a supplicants head. A bleeding prisoner is being beaten with stones. Please note rulers hair. Looks like Motul?  CLICK for the shape of the vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Curtains, in palace scenes, Fire, Inscription - other text, Prisoners or captives, Ruler, king, cacique, governor, potentate

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1999-11-27

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Kerr Number:  7522
Vase Type:  Polychrome
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Height:  22.5 cm
Diameter:  11 cm
Circumference:  36 cm
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Comments:  Two catfish swim in a red sea. One of the series of with the inverted triangle of dots and kimi The Hero Twins as catfish. http://www.mayavase.com/still/7522still.jpg Click on this link for the shape of the vessel   Read the article about the connection between the catfish, the Hero Twins, and the Popol Vuh.
Iconographic Elements:  Fish

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-12-12

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Kerr Number:  7524
Vase Type:  Polychrome
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Height:  16.6 cm
Diameter:  12.5 cm
Circumference:  37 cm
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Publications:  The Art of the Maya ScribeThe Maya Vase Book Volume 6 p.999
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Comments:  Footed vase with traces of stucco. The PSS in red has the biimbedded in the forehead for tzib. A monster head decorates the body of the vase. A woman on K6059 is shown holding such a vessel. She has similar monster heads on her garment. Nikolai Grube;The last part of the rim text mentions the name Tut K'in Chaak, an ajaw of the place B'uuk'.  CLICK for the shape of the vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Emblem glyph, Primary Standard Sequence

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1999-04-24

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