Panel carved with male figure and inscription Artist: Unknown

A.D. 650–750

Art of the Ancient Americas

On view, 1st floor, Art of the Ancient Americas

Medium

Limestone

Dimensions

86.4 × 41 × 17.8 cm (34 × 16 1/8 × 7 in.)

Credit Line

Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund

Accession Number

1973.88.47

Geography

Mexico

Culture

Mexico, Maya, Oxkintok, Yucatan

Period

Late Classic Period

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Oxkintok, Yucatan, Structure 3C7 acc. to Mayer. Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1973 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography

  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 318, ill.
  • George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 125–26, no. 273, fig. 125.
  • Karl Herbert Mayer, Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance in the United States (Ramona, Calif.: Acoma Books, 1980), 11, pl. 19, ill.
  • "Acquisitions, 1973," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974): 79.
  • "New Acquisitions Issue," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 24, no. 1 (April 1958): 19,20, fig. 8.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), human figures (visual works), sculptures

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