La Corona, Element 13 (CRN: Elm. 13)

Treppe

Maya Artefact
Bemerkung: Alternative designations: Site Q Ballplayer Panel 1; K2882; Kerr 2882 Original metadata from the AIC: "Ballplayer Panel; Date: A.D. 700/800; Artist: Late Classic Maya; Usumacinta River area, Mexico or Guatemala; About this artwork: In Central America, the best-known sculptors are the Maya, who decorated their temples and sacred precincts with finely carved stone reliefs representing powerful dynastic rulers involved in various secular and religious activities. This fragmentary ball-court panel from the late eighth century shows two men, dressed in elaborate costumes, engaged in a ritual ball game. Surrounding the figures, and clearly set off from them, are fragments of hieroglyphs by which the Maya identified the players and the date on which the game occurred; Artist: Maya; Title: Ballplayer Panel; Origin: Usumacinta; Date: 700 AD–800 AD; Medium: Limestone; Dimensions: 43.2 × 25.1 cm (17 × 9.9 in.); Credit Line: Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund; Reference Number: 965.407" Peter Mathews comment: "In the spring of 1965 the Art Institute of Chicago purchased this limestone panel from New York antiquities dealer William Randall for $12,500. Measurements: 29.3 x 43 cm. The sculpture shows two ballplayers. The text above the one on the right identifies him as Chak Kutz (Great or Red Turkey) and tells of his witnessing a calendar ritual at Oxte'tun Chik Nab (Three Stone Waterlily Tree [?] Place) in 9.?.15.0.0. (A.D. 690). One of six ballplayer panels from Site Q, this sculpture, along with nine glyphic panels, were probably part of the same structure. These blocks may have served as risers for a staircase much like that of structure 33 at Yaxchilán, Chiapas, Mexico, built in A.D. 761.", cited from https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/siteq/

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Maya Image Archive: Projekt "Textdatenbank und Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya"; Universität Bonn - Abteilung für Altamerikanistik
• Inventarnummer: 1965.407
• Weitere Nummer(n): KHM 2 - 5 (Catalog number)
• Material/Technik: Limestone

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Verwandtes Objekt und Literatur: Publication about Artefact online in Zotero Bibliography: Mayer, Karl Herbert (1980) Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance in the United States. Acoma Books, Ramona, CA.

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Archäologie ; Maya Kultur

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Fund
• (wo): La Corona (Archaeological Site)
• (Beschreibung): Provenienz

Weitere Informationen

• Letzte Aktualisierung: 05.03.2025, 16:09 MEZ