Cylinder vase with palace scene

tlatollotl:

Maya
Late Classic Period
A.D. 700–800

Object Place: Motul de San José to Dos Pilas areas, El Petén, Guatemala

The narrative scene depicts a meeting between two lords seated on a bench-throne. The primary lord wears a black deer headdress, and a dwarf-like person accompanies the other lord. Behind the main figure sits a woman, and behind her kneels a man wearing a jaguar-deer headdress and jaguar pelt cape. All figures except the main lord hold a bouquet-like sheaf of white and orange-painted objects. Short glyphs texts in the scene identify the participants and may specify the nature of the event.

MFA

tlatollotl:

Earflare pair

Maya
Classic period
A.D. 250–850

Object Place: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, or Honduras

A pair of square earflares carved in the shape of a four-petaled flower. Although they are the same size, one is carved from a mottled green jadeite and the other is carved from a more uniform, dark green jadeite.

MFA

tlatollotl:

Stucco painted conch shell. Maya, AD 700–900

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/exploring-the-early-americas/ritual-ceremonies-and-celebrations.html

kardiologn:

Camazotz, meaning Death in Bat K’iche’ language, a Lord in Xibalbá, Mesoamerica, associated with death, night and sacrifice ~ ca.1000 B.C. until the advent of the Classic Period ca. 250 AD