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Image:  5925

File date:  2001-02-03

Caption:  Basal Flange Vessel

Description:  Maya. brownware clay. Height to top of cover 28.7 cm., diameter 38.1 cm. Early Classic Basal flange vessel with cover, The incised decoration on the cover suggests flowers while the decoration on the body suggests an underwater place. The top knob is decorated as a knot suggesting the vessel is viewed as a tied bundle. .



Photograph by Justin Kerr