Lidded Tripod with Carved Decoration.
Hunal Tomb, Structure 16, Copan, Honduras, AD 435.
Ceramic with slip, 21.2 x 21.5 cm.
IHAH, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Arqueológicas, Copán, Honduras.
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The remains of K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' indicate that he was five feet, six inches tall, and was between fifty-five and seventy years old when he died. His body was placed on a large stone slab and wore a headdress of cut shell spangles, and jadeite, shell, and bone ornaments. There were many objects on the tomb's floor, including the remains of painted gourds and twenty-one ceramics of varied form, decoration, and origin (although most were locally made).
References:
Grube, Nikolai. 1990. A Reference to Water-Lily Jaguar on Caracol Stela 16. Copan Notes 68. Austin: Unversity of Texas at Austin.
Rattray, Evelyn, and Garman Harbottle. 1992. "Neutron Activation Analysis and Numerical Taxonomy of Thin Orange Ceramics from the Manufacturing Site of Rio Carnero, Puebla, Mexico." In Chemical Characterization of Ceramics Pastes in Archaeology, ed. Hector Neff, 221-31. Madison, Wisconsin: Prehistory Press.
Sharer, Robert J., Loa P. Traxler, David W. Sedat, Ellen E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto, and C. Powell. 1999. "Early Classic Architecture Beneath the Copan Acropolis." Ancient Mesoamerica 10 (1): 3-23.
Sharer, Robert J. 2003. "Founding Events and Teotihuacan Connections at Copan, Honduras." In Braswell, The Maya and Teotihuacan, 143-65.
Bell, Ellen E., Robert J. Sharer, Loa P. Traxler, David W. Sedat, Christine W. Carrelli, and Lynn A. Grant. 2004. "Tombs and Burials in the Early Classic Acropolis at Copan." In Bell et al., Understanding Early Classic Copan,, 132-6.
Reents-Budet, Dorie, Ellen E. Bell, Loa P. Traxler, and Ronald L. Bishop. 2004. "Early Classic Ceramic Offerings at Copan. In Bell et al., Understanding Early Classic Copan, 179-80.
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