Image: 2830
File date: 2003-09-15
Caption: Portrait of a Ruler
Description: Maya. greenstone. height 20 cm. Excavated, the stela 7 cache, Copan, Honduras. Portrait of a ruler. Published The Blood of Kings plate 35. NMAI-Smithsonian. We now know that what he holds in his arms is a model of a centipede, a symbol of death.
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Photograph by Justin Kerr
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