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Location: Guatemala

Caption: JM00909, The Hauberg Stela

Category: Maya. Early Classic

Keywords: 8.8.0.4.0 8 Ajaw 13 Sip AD 199

Comments: A miniature stela depicting a ruler involved with supernaturals materialized by self-sacrificial bloodletting.

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Location: El Cayo, Chiapas, Mexico

Caption: JM00910, Unprovenanced Wall Panel, Piedras Negras

Category: Maya. Late Classic

Source: The Hellmuth Panel

Comments: Image of secondary site, El Cayo, ruler (a sahal) bending toward ruler of Piedras Negras. Text records a series of death dates of the royal family of Piedras Negras.

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Caption: JM00911, Incised Bone

Category: Maya. Early Classic (250-450 AD)

Source: Auctioned by Sotheby's 1999

Comments: Bone in marked with 4 deity heads, left to right: GI?, GI, GIII (as Waterlily Jaguar), GIII

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Caption: JM00912, Unprovenanced Jade Celt, Back

Category: Maya. Early Classic (435 AD)

Keywords: See also JM00913 9.0.0.0.0

Comments: Initial glyph is 8 Ajaw followed by Glyph G, and 13 Keh (B2) the CR for 9.0.0.0.0 or December 9, 435 - the period-ending also recorded at B3. B6 records a scattering event, a sacrificial event at A7 possibly enacted by the possessed Ajaw (yajaw) at B9.

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Caption: JM00913, Unprovenanced Jade Celt, Front

Category: Maya. Early Classic (435 AD)

Keywords: See also JM00912 (back of celt) 9.0.0.0.0

Comments: Back records period ending and accompanying rituals in celebrating 9.0.0.0.0. Figure dressed as maize god wears Highland Mexico motif of year sign and the number 6.

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Caption: JM00914, Unprovenanced Jade Celt, Back

Category: Maya. Early Classic

Comments: Possibly 5 Chikchan "13" Mak? - for date of accession (B4) or ?, followed by sacrificial bloodletting (B10) in celebration of the 6 Ajaw tun-ending.

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Caption: JM00915, Unprovenanced Jade Celt, Front

Keywords: See also JM00914.

Comments: Profile image of male figure identified as one of the Hero Twins, Hun Ajaw aka "Spot". Skull and rope motif also on Tikal, Stela 31.

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Caption: JM00916, Unprovenanced Jade Plaque

Category: Maya.

Comments: Plaque in form of a frontal Witz - monster with two profile snouts, one at each side.

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Caption: JM00917, Unprovenanced Jade Plaque

Category: Maya.

Comments: Plaque depicts male lord seated on a witz - decorated cushion or seat. Part of a bicephalic serpent/skyband shown above, a dwarf beside the seat. Shield on figure's left wrist depicts the "cruller" of the solar deity. Headdress in form of agnathic serpent.

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Caption: JM00918, Unprovenanced Limestone Panel, Yaxchilán

Category: Maya. Late Classic (750 AD)

Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Comments: Woman wearing huipil is seated within a lunar cartouche - a stylization typical of Yaxchilán. Also typical of Yaxchilán (and nearby Bonampak) is the tied bundle held by woman. This is perhaps a female associate of Bird Jaguar IV.

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Location: La Mar, Chiapas, Mexico

Caption: JM00919, Unprovenanced Stela, LaMar Stela 3

Category: Maya. Late Classic (795 AD)

Credit: Copyright

Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Comments: Text opens with hotun end 4 Ajaw 8 Kej or 9.18.5.0.0, September 13, 795. Then DN -3.9.2, back to 3 Etz'nab 6 Sotz 9.18.1.8.18, March 30, 792 when a victim is captured. Another DN to another record of capture - victim possibly from Pomona.