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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Mayan Polychrome Plate, 300 CE - 600 CE

Mayan Polychrome Plate, 300 CE - 600 CE

Terracotta
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PF.2195
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Painted in rich sunset colors or red, orange and black, this bold plate was left as a funerary offering at the grave of some Mayan notable. Decorated with a glyph...
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Painted in rich sunset colors or red, orange and black, this bold plate was left as a funerary offering at the grave of some Mayan notable. Decorated with a glyph of a God's head, it possesses an aura of mystical power that reaches across the barriers of time. The hole puched in the center of the plate is the result of a Mayan custom for freeing the souls of the dead to pass into the underworld. Bold and abstract, such a plate appeals to modern sensibilities as it no doubt did to Ancient Mayan ones. As we hold it in our hands, gazing at its hypnotic motif, we are transported back to the glories of a vanished civilization. DIAM. 33cm(13IN)
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