Pottery cast depicting a seated human figure (head missing) with an inscription underneath written in Mayan glyphs. [SM (Verve) 29/2/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery cast depicting a seated human figure (head missing) with an inscription underneath written in Mayan glyphs. [SM (Verve) 29/2/2016]
Long description: Red pottery cast depicting a human figure seated on an elaborate throne. The figure's head is missing and the figure is holding a long staff or similar diagonally across its lap. The figure is flanked by two large serpents' or feathered serpents' heads, the left of which is mostly missing. An inscription underneath the throne is written in Mayan glyphs. There is a partially hollowed out section at the back. [JC [OPS Move] 28/6/2017]
Geographical reference: Belize
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Belize; South Toledo District Lubaantun
Person: Field collector Norman David Curle Hammond; PRM source Norman David Curle Hammond
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1970 Archaeological period: Maya
Date collected: January - May 1970
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1972
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Cast, Process Fire-Hardened
Dimensions: Depth: max 19 mm, Height: max 80 mm, Width: max 80 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1972.25.161
Associated publications: Hammond, N. 1975 Lubaantun, a classic Maya realm. Cambridge (Mass.): Peabody Museum of Archaeology. See also article in Antiquity XLIV, 216-223.