Sujet
Panel with Royal Woman, c. 795. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Panel with Royal Woman, c. 795. In this panel, probably from a palace interior, the woman?s static posture contrasts with the liveliness of the creature she holds, a god of royalty with a serpent leg and a grotesque head with a smoking torch on its brow. (The same deity is shown in the nearby Eccentric Flint.) Other signs of high rank are her jade jewelry and costume, its beauty suggesting that textiles and featherwork were great Maya arts, now lost to a tropical climate. The hieroglyphics refer to an undefined ritual that the woman completed in 795.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F98_145
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
64,3Mo (8,3Mo) / 43,2cm x 37,3cm / 5099 x 4408 (300dpi)