Art Institute of Chicago
Hieroglyphic Panel
Late Classic MayaLinkedCulture matchlcp-04296350f79e
- Date
- 650–800
- Medium
- Limestone
- Culture
- Guatemala
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 33231
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The Maya developed hieroglyphic writing to record the names, births, marriages, alliances, victories and coronations, and deaths of their rulers. Mythological events and religious happenings were also carefully chronicled. Today scholars are deciphering this script and linking the translated information to additional archaeological evidence in order to reconstruct ancient Maya history, belief, and culture. This fragment from a hieroglyphic panel contains calendrical information that was part of a longer text.
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- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Claire B. Zeisler Foundation
- Provenance
- Edward H. Merrin Gallery, New York, by 1969 [incoming receipt, RX7290, Dec. 22, 1969; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.
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- Object type
- AAT300190691
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