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Gadrooned bowl with hieroglyph rim text

Made By Campeche
Made By Maya
Made By Mexican
ExcavatedCampeche, Mexico
DateLate Classic, 600-900 AD
Mediumterracotta with orange and black polychrome
Dimensions5 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (14 × 16.5 × 16.5 cm)
Classification(s)
  • AMERINDIAN
Credit LineGift of Herbert D. N. Jones, Class of 1914
Terms
  • bowl
  • text
  • hieroglyph
Object number21.1.14
Descriptionthin orange ware; Maya; cocoa; cacao
Collections
Inscribedsixteen-glyph inscription (translated): "This drinking cup contains fresh new cocoa and is owned by Spine-Hand the Blood-Scatterer, the twenty-year old kin [possibly son] of the forty-year-old Lord of Naman."
On View
Not on view
Exhibitions
Teaching events
Antonia Foias, ANTH 103, f25
Antonia Foias, ANTH 214, f21
Photogrammetry
RTI photography
Antonia Foias, ANTH 214, f22
Beth Fischer, ARTH 507, s23
Antonia Foias, ANTH 214, f23
Published References(3D model) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mayan-bowl-with-hieroglyph-rim-12cc286945c84402ab8efa4f2db75061
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