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Identifier: TP.2022.J.14
title: Figurine of a Dignitary
Type: figurines
name: Unknown
producer: modelers
has culture: Maya (culture or style)
date created: ca. 600–800 CE
has style period: Late Classic
location of: Isla Jaina; Yucatan; Campeche; México
has technique: molding (forming); sculpting
material: earthenware See all items with this value; Maya blue (pigment) See all items with this value; yellow pigment See all items with this value
area: 10 1/2 x 6 1/8 x 2 15/16 inches (26.7 x 15.5 x 7.5 cm)
description: "This figure’s demeanor, feathered cape, turban, and slight paunch attest to his noble status. Although such figurines once were thought to be portraits, more recent scholarship has suggested that they instead present stock social types and courtly positions. Punctures in the clay represent a delicate design on the loincloth, which may have been sheer gauze. The open mouth, large chest, and expansive gesture might indicate that the man was a court singer (k'ayom), a title that is written in hieroglyphs on Maya vase paintings that depict attendants to royalty."

—Princeton University Art Museum
Subject: ceramic ware (visual works) See all items with this value; Males See all items with this value; Nobility See all items with this value; Singers See all items with this value
Rights: See all items with this value
Access Rights: Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Allen Rosenbaum to the Princeton Art Museum; with additional support from Lewis Ranieri in honor of Gillett G. Griffin on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, by exchange; Harry A. Brooks, Class of 1935, in honor of Allen Rosenbaum; and Samuel Merrin and Spencer Throckmorton, to Princeton University Art Museum
Source: https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/46033

Item sets: Mayan Figures

Media: TP-2022-J-14

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