Bloodletting (Lintel 17)
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Bloodletting (Lintel 17)
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Published 2019-03-13T13:36:50+00:00
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The bloodletting scene here parallels that on lintel 24 (also uploaded to Scan the World). The sumptuously dress kneeling woman pulling the rope her tongue is Lady Balam-Ix, another of Bird Jaguar's wives. Opposite her sits Bird Jaguar, adorned with ornate earplugs, nosepiece, bar pectoral, jade cylinder cuffs and a shield tied to his back. The fact that he is wearing a skull and skeletal serpent headdress, like Lady Xoc on lintel 25, suggests that he too is about to let blood by piercing his penis with the perforator he holds in front of him.
Technical Information
| Date published | 13/03/2019 |
| Schwierigkeitsgrad | Easy |
More Information
| Title | Bloodletting (Lintel 17) |
| Date | 770 |
| Dimension | Height: 69.2 centimetres Width: 76.2 centimetres Depth: 5 centimetres |
| Accession | Ethno. 1886-320 |
| Period | Classic Maya |
| Medium | Stone |
| Record | https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=469454&partId=1&images=true |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | British Museum |
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