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Image:  4499a

File date:  1990-01-15

Caption:  Shell with prisoner

Description:  Maya. Shell. incised height 17 cm. Captive being humiliated. Simon Martin suggests that the name incised on the shell is that of Pay Lakam Chaak, a Santa Elena lord mentioned at Yaxchilian. See 4499b for the other side of the shell. See 4499c and d for text.



Photograph by Justin Kerr