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Object Number
65-18-20/23538.1
Display Title
31 pottery head effigy parts
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Ceramic, rim and body sherds, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic effigy figures attached to rim and body exterior, zoomorphs includel bird-like animals with punctate eyes, human forms with protruding jaw and arms raised to head, other limbs affixed to vessel body, some hollow, some with pigmentation
Classification
- Sherd
Department
Archaeological
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
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Guatemala
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Guatemala
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<County>
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Guatemala City
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Kaminaljuyu
Materials
Ceramic , Pigment
Dimensions
Overall (Measurement of one): 5.4 x 7 x 3.7 cm (2 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 1 7/16 in.)
Quantity
30
Label on object
65-18-20/23538; #22; RT; T#
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