Column with standing figure
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Column with standing figure
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Published 2018-10-16T14:12:14+00:00
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This column depicts a richly dressed Maya ruler with an enormous tiered feather headdress. The figure, flanked by an attendant dwarf, also wears a collar with three images of human heads and a long beaded necklace. In his right hand, he carries a hooked obsidian sceptre, and his left arm is hidden behind a shield. The ruler's face was originally painted red but intentionally damaged in antiquity. Carved column are rare in Maya art but appear in Puuc region of the Yucatan Peninsula
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| Date published | 16/10/2018 |
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| Title | Column with standing figure |
| Date | circa 8th-9th century AD |
| Accession | 1978.412.88 |
| Medium | Stone |
| Credit | The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1963 |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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