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| Keywords: God L with the Hero Twins.jpg Late Classic Ancient Maya art Maya 'Codex' style Princeton Vase A D 670 “750 Ceramic with red cream and black slip with remnants of painted stucco Size cm 21 5 16 6 Princeton University Art Museum Art of the Ancient Americas object history exhibition history The Blood of Kings Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art May 17 - December 14 1986 Lords of the Underworld March 4 - June 18 1978 The Maya Scribe and His World April 20 - June 5 1971 credit line Museum purchase gift of the Hans A Widenmann Class of 1918 and Dorothy Widenmann Foundation K0511 MS1404 accession number y1975-17 place of creation NakbĂ© region Mirador Basin PetĂ©n en God L residing in his palace and surrounded by young women Hero Twins not part of this detail Catalogue Entry <br> The masterful calligraphic painting on the Princeton Vase is the finest known example of Maya codex style ceramic art Graceful sure lines painted on a cream slip present a theatrically composed mythological scene while subtle visual devices encourage the viewer to turn the drinking vessel adding a temporal unfolding to the visual experience On one side seen here an old toothless underworld god sits on a throne that is placed within a conventionalized depiction of a palace structure represented by the pier behind him and what is likely a cornice above The cornice is adorned with two jawless jaguars framing a frontal shark face Curtains which were used as doors among the ancient Maya have been furled and tied to reveal the old lord seated within This deity known among scholars as God L wears his characteristic open-weave brocaded shawl and broad-brimmed hat bedecked with owl feathers and a stuffed owl with wings outstretched In addition to ruling Xibalba the Maya underworld God L was the patron deity of tobacco and merchants Five elegant female figures … ” …daughters or concubines … ” …surround him Each wears a loose flowing sarong decorated with batik-like dyed patterns rendered in soft brown wash and jewelry at the ears neck and wrists One of the women behind God L pours chocolate frothing the bitter delicacy from a vessel of the same form as the Princeton Vase A rabbit scribe who may be spying on God L sits below recording the actions of the scene in a book with jaguar-pelt covers God L delicately ties a bracelet on the woman before him while another woman taps her foot to draw her attention ”and the viewer ™s ”to the gruesome scene at left in which two men wearing elaborate masks and wielding axes decapitate a bound and stripped figure The victim ™s serpent-umbilicus curls out to bite one of the executioners The scene closely parallels a portion of the Popol Vuh a sixteenth-century K ™iche ™ Maya mythological narrative wherein the Hero Twins trick the lords of the underworld into requesting their own decapitations As is common in mythological narratives throughout the Americas these heroes win the day not through Herculean feats of brute strength but through cunning and often humorous trickery The formulaic texts at the upper edge of the Princeton Vase serve to consecrate the vessel to specify that it was intended for drinking maize tree chocolate and to designate its owner a lord named Muwaan K ™uk ™ The vase would have been used in courtly feasts similar to the scene depicted Gallery Label <br> On this side of the famous Maya chocolate-drinking cup known as the Princeton Vase an old toothless underworld god sits on a throne within a palace represented by the pier behind him and a cornice above Curtains which were used as doors among the ancient Maya have been pulled up to reveal the interior scene This deity known among scholars as God L wears his characteristic shawl and a broadbrimmed hat bedecked with owl feathers and an owl In addition to ruling the Maya underworld God L was the patron deity of tobacco and merchants Five elegant female figures ”possibly concubines ” surround him A rabbit scribe who might be spying on God L sits below writing in a book A standing woman with her head bent in concentration suggests that the viewer rotate the vase to the left She holds a vessel similar in size and shape to the Princeton Vase and a stream of liquid pours down from it presumably into a vessel whose rendering has eroded This method of preparation likely frothed the bitter chocolate beverage that this vessel was made to serve The vertical pier or rear wall of a palace structure marks the boundaries of the overall composition on this vase placing the selfreferential vignette of vessel use at the end of the scene as a sort of addendum The most important moment in the narrative of the Princeton Vase appears on this side of the vessel Two men wearing elaborate masks and wielding axes decapitate a bound and stripped figure seen at the lower left; the victim ™s serpent-umbilicus curls out to bite one of the executioners The scene closely parallels a portion of the Popol Vuh a sixteenth-century K ™iche ™ Maya mythological narrative in which the Hero Twins trick the lords of the underworld into requesting their own decapitations As is common in mythological narratives throughout the Americas these heroes win the day not through feats of brute strength but through cunning and often humorous trickery With graceful sure lines painted on a cream slip the Princeton Vase presents a story that stretches around the entire object Because passing or turning the drinking cup is necessary for full comprehension of the narrative subtle visual devices between the primary scenes encourage the viewer to rotate the vessel creating a temporal unfolding of the visual experience Here for example a young noblewoman taps the foot of the woman in front of her while turning her head in the opposite direction she is between two scenes and encourages her companion and thus the viewer to shift her attention around the vase Francis Robicsek The Maya Book of the Dead The Ceramic Codex University of Virginia Art Museum 1981 PD-old-100 <gallery mode packed heights 100px> File The Princeton Vase jpg File God L with the Hero Twins jpg File Late Classic Maya The Princeton Vase A D 670-750 1 jpg File Late Classic Maya The Princeton Vase A D 670-750 2 jpg File Late Classic Maya The Princeton Vase A D 670-750 3 jpg File Late Classic Maya The Princeton Vase A D 670-750 4 jpg File Late Classic Maya The Princeton Vase A D 670-750 5 jpg File Late Classic Maya The Princeton Vase A D 670-750 6 jpg File Late Classic Maya The Princeton Vase A D 670-750 7 jpg </gallery> cite web The Princeton Vase y1975-17 http //artmuseum princeton edu/fr/collections/objects/32221 Princeton University Art Museum Princeton University Art Museum Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections Princeton 2013 Daniela Soleri Marcus Winter Steven R Bozarth and W Jeffrey Hurst Archaeological Residues and Recipes Exploratory Testing for Evidence of Maize and Cacao Beverages in Postclassic Vessels from the Valley of Oaxaca Latin American Antiquity Bryan R Just Dancing into Dreams Maya Vase Painting of the Ik' Kingdom Princeton Princeton University Art Museum 2012 Justin Kerr The Maya Cylinder A Short History Unrolled in Adventures in Pre-Columbian Studies Essays in Honor of Elizabeth P Benson ed Julie Jones Washington D C Pre-Columbian Society of Washington D C 99-118 Stephen D Houston and Karl A Taube La sexualidad entre los antiguos mayas Arqueologia Mexicana 18 no 104 2010 Marc Zender Baj 'Hammer' and Related Affective Verbs in Classic Mayan The PARI Journal 11 no 2 2010 Anonymous Los Codices Mayas Arqueologia Mexicana 31 2009 Stephen D Houston et al Veiled Brightness A History of Ancient Maya Color Austin University of Texas Press 2009 Sarah E Jackson Imagining Courtly Communities An Exploration of Classic Maya Experiences of Status and Identity through Painted Ceramic Vessels Ancient Mesoamerica 20 2009 Erik Velásquez GarcĂa Reflections on the Codex Style and the Princeton Vessel The PARI Journal 10 no 1 2009 Erik Velásquez GarcĂa El Vaso de Princeton Un ejemplo del estilo cĂłdice ArqueologĂa Mexicana 16 no 93 October 2008 Stephen D Houston Davie Stuart and Karl Taube The Memory of Bones Body Being and Experience among the Classic Maya Austin University of Texas Press 2006 Daniel Schávelzon Treinta Siglos de Imágenes Maquetas y Representaciones de Arquitectura en MĂ©xico y AmĂ©rica Central Prehispánica Buenos Aires Ediciones FundaciĂłn CEPPA 2004 Terry G Powis et al Spouted Vessels and Cacao Use among the Preclassic Maya Latin American Antiquity 13 no 1 2002 Caroline E Tate Writing on the face of the moon Women's products archetypes and power in ancient Maya civilization in Manifesting Power Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology ed Tracey Sweely London Routledge 1999 Michael D Coe and Justin Kerr The Art of the Maya Scribe New York Harry N Abrams 1997 Adam Herring A Royal Artist at Naranjo Notes on a Late Classic Maya Cylinder Vessel Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 1995-1996 Steve J Stern The Tricks of Time Colonial Legacies and Historical Sensibilities inLatin America Princeton University Library Chronicle vol LVII no 3 Spring 1996 Dorie Reents-Budet Painting the Maya Universe Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period Durham and London Duke University Press 1994 Sophie D Coe America's First Cuisines Austin University of Texas Press 1994 Gregorio Arribas and Manuel Pijoan trans Los Reinos Perdidos de los Mayas Barcelona/Washington D C RBA Publications/National Geographic Society 1993 Gene S Stuart and George E Stuart Lost Kingdoms of the Maya Washington D C National Geographic Society 1993 Michael Olmert Smithsonian Book of Books Washington Smithsonian Books 1992 Terence Grieder Artist and Audience New York Holt Rinehart and Winston 1990 Marvin Cohodas Transformations Relationships between Image and Text in the Ceramic Paintings of the Metropolitan Master in Word and Image in Maya Culture Explorations in Language Writing and Representation ed William F Hanks and Don S R Barbara Kerr and Justin Kerr Some Observations on Maya Vase Painters in Maya Iconography eds Elizabeth P Benson and Gillett G Griffin Princeton Princeton University Press 1988 236-259 Mary Ellen Miller The Murals of Bonampak Princeton Princeton University Press 1986 Linda Schele and Mary E Miller The Blood of Kings Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art New York and Fort Worth George Braziller Inc and Kimbell Art Museum 1986 Gillett G Griffin In Defense of the Collector National Geographic vol 169 no 4 April 1986 Francis Robiscek The Maya Book of the Dead The Ceramic Codex Charlottesville University of Virginia Art Museum 1981 Jill Leslie McKeever Furst and Peter T Furst Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico New York Abbeville Press 1980 Michael D Coe Lords of the Underworld Masterpieces of Classic Maya Ceramics Princeton Princeton University Art Museum 1978 Michael D Coe The Maya Scribe and His World New York The Grolier Club 1973 Princeton Vase | ||||
