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Panel from The Temple of the Sun. Both text and image rest on a double-headed band decorated with earth symbols. The smaller person at left stands on a kneeling figure who is decorated with marks that identify supernaturals. The left-most person holds a Jester god/personified flint figurine that rests on a tiny bench. The person on the right side of the panel stands atop a kneeling Supernatural decorated with "k'uhul" (god) symbols. This larger person offers a K'awiil figurine. At center, God L (left) and an unidentified god hold aloft a large bench embellished with jaguar and serpent motifs. Atop the bench are two crossed lances and a shield decorated with the face Of G-iii. Glyphs recording supernatural locations flank the shield.
Preclassic Maya mural at San Bartolo depicting auto-sacrifice being performed by a god Discovered for the modern world by William Saturno in 2001. Photo Kenneth Garrett for National Geographic
Seated ah k'u hun with a conch shell inkpot.
Naj Yunich cavern
K928 Justin Kerr rollout vase - Sacrificial scene (OLD GODS AND YOUNG HEROES, 1982) See: Maya Vase Archive
K511. The Princeton Vase. Rollout photographed by Justin Kerr:
The court of the other world with God L and the Twins as magicians, Supernatural Palace.
see: http://www.mayavase.com/godl.pdf
© Justin Kerr
© Justin Kerr
© Justin Kerr
© Justin Kerr
© Justin Kerr
© Justin Kerr
© Justin Kerr
© Justin Kerr
© Justin Kerr
Justin Kerr THE ART OF THE MAYA SCRIBE Coe & Kerr, 1997
Justin Kerr ART OF THE MAYA SCRIBE. Coe & Kerr 1997
Justin Kerr THE ART OF THE MAYA SCRIBE Coe & Kerr, 1997
Justin Kerr, OLD GODS AND YOUNG HEROES
Lintel 24 from Yaxchilan depicts a night scene of royal bloodletting. 'Lintels 24 and 25, removed at Maudslay's request at the end of the nineteenth century, are on permanent display in the British Museum's Mexican Gallery. Lintel 26, the third in the series, is in the Museo Nacional de Antropología, in Mexico City.
The scene represents a bloodletting ritual performed by the king of Yaxchilán, Itsam Balam ('Shield Jaguar' 681-742), and his wife, Lady K'ab'al Xook (Itzamnaaj Bahlen III). The king holds a torch while his principal wife passes a thorn-studded rope through a hole in her tongue. Scrolls of blood can be seen around her mouth.
The first two glyphs in the text at the top of the lintel indicate the event and the date on which it took place, 24 October, AD 709 (5 Eb, 15 Mak in the maya calendar). The last glyph represents the Emblem Glyph (that is, the city name in Maya hierolglyphs) of Yaxchilán. The text on the left of the panel contains the name and titles of Lady K'ab'al Xook. The lintel has traces of blue, turquoise and red pigment.' © image Justin Kerr![<a href="https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/CMHI/detail.php?num=25&site=Yaxchilan&type=Lintel#" target="_blank">Lintel 25 from Yaxchilan</a> contains a rare example of a right-to-left text. Dedicated in 723, it depicts Lady Xoc, peering up at the Vision Serpent, from whose mouth appears a fully armed dynastic ancestor. In this reversed text, the Calendar Round date 5 Imix 4 Mak [23 Oct 681] is seen on the upper right.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Maya/i-tkwPZN4/2/e5f10d50/XL/maya_lady_xoc-XL.jpg)
Lintel 25 from Yaxchilan contains a rare example of a right-to-left text. Dedicated in 723, it depicts Lady Xoc, peering up at the Vision Serpent, from whose mouth appears a fully armed dynastic ancestor. In this reversed text, the Calendar Round date 5 Imix 4 Mak [23 Oct 681] is seen on the upper right.
Lintel 26, Yaxchilan
The Kimbell Panel. Depicts a warrior presenting captives (which may be captured scribes) to a king.
THE ART OF THE MAYA SCRIBE, Coe & Kerr, 1997 Late Classic Stela of ok-Ain (Alligator Foot') from the yet-to-be-located city of Yomop, attired in the costume of the young maize god.
stucco glyphs, Palenque
K'inich Janaab' Pakal (March 603 – August 683) MAYA, Rizzoli 1998
Lord Pakal at Palanque
Pacal the Great, sarcophagus lid Temple of the Inscriptions. Palenque Depicts a youthful Pacal, in a fetal-like position, in a sacrificial bowl from which rises a ceiba tree (or axis tree) which functions as a bridge between worlds. He is shown being reborn in the east, as the maize god of eternal life.
The Tablet of the 96 Hieroglyphs. Late Classic calligraphic glyphs incised on smooth limestone at Palenque One of the latest inscriptions found at the site.
This panel contains what are among from the pinnacle of their development the most finely carved glyphs ever found. The tablet was found intact, face-down in the ground, and workmen, not realizing the other side was craved, thinking it was another big rock, broke it apart with their pickaxes to make it easier to move. © Jorge Pérez de Lara Mesoweb: Tablet of 96 Glyphs
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Detail Tablet of 96 Glyphs © Justin Kerr
Ruler in a watery cave. 795 AD. Cancuen, Guatemala
Large stucco glyph
© Justin Kerr
© Justin Kerr
© Justin Kerr
Moon goddess with Rabbit God
Censer stand with human face. Palenque. 700-900 AD "Dr. Albert Ruz "L'Huller — INAH Mexico
Censer stand with sun god. Palenque. 700-900 AD "Dr. Albert Ruz "L'Huller — INAH Mexico
