Old Man, Pawahtuun Head
Scan The World
2,805
views
109
downloads
3
collections
0 comments
Loading comments... 
Old Man, Pawahtuun Head
3D
Published 2017-11-13T17:32:02+00:00
5
0
Add to Collection
Description
The Maya believed that old deities called Pawahtuuns held up the surface of the earth. They imagined the earth as the body of a crocodile floating on the surface of a large body of water. Above them, youthful Bacabs supported the four corners of the sky. Here you see everybody's favourite, the toothless "old man of Copan." It is the head of one of two giant Pawahtuuns from either end of Temple 11. These towering figures once held an enormous mosaic crocodile that stretched across the temple facade. The headdress is a knotted water lily, a symbol of fertility. If reassembled, the Pawahtuuns would represent the largest sculpted human figures found at Copan.
Licenza
Technical Information
| Date published | 13/11/2017 |
More Information
| Title | Old Man, Pawahtuun Head |
| Date | 769 AD |
| Dimension | ~1m height |
| Period | Classic Maya |
| Medium | Limestone |
| Credit | Place of found: Temple 11, Copan, Honduras. Place of storage: Museo de Escultura, Copan Honduras |
| Place | Copan's Sculpture Museum, Honduras |
Object Parts
