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Site:  Mixtec
Schele Number:  7308
Description:  Detail from the borgia codex representing a world tree rising from a deceased person's body.
Artifact:  
Chronological Era:  Terminal Classic
Culture:  Mixtec
Iconographic Features:  Vegetation
Publications:  L. Schele, "The Olmec Mountain and Tree Creation in Mesoamerican Cosmology," in The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership, 1995:114, Fig. 25
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Site:  Mixtec
Schele Number:  7309
Description:  Detail from selden codex page 2. the lineage founder, 2 grass, is being born from a twisting world tree.
Artifact:  
Chronological Era:  Terminal Classic
Culture:  Mixtec
Iconographic Features:  Vegetation
Publications:  L. Schele, "The Olmec Mountain and Tree Creation in Mesoamerican Cosmology," in The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership, 1995:113, Fig. 24b
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Site:  Teotihuacan
Schele Number:  7313
Description:  Image of either a teotihuacan ruler or the great goddess from west group, avenue of the dead.
Architectural Feature:  Mural
Chronological Era:  Early Classic
Culture:  Teotihuacan
Publications:  L. Schele, "The Olmec Mountain and Tree Creation in Mesoamerican Cosmology," in The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership, 1995:111, Fig. 20
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Site:  Piedras Negras
Schele Number:  7621
Description:  Stela 12, september 15 ad 795, ruler sitting atop a flight of stairs receives two war captains, who present him with a pile of captives. eight captives are tied together on the lower register, and many show signs of having been tortured. ruler wears what could be a shrunken human body or possibly an olmec heirloom.
Architectural Feature:  Stela
Chronological Era:  Late Classic
Culture:  Maya
Iconographic Features:  Prisoners, Spears, Warfare
Publications:  L. Schele and M. Miller, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art 1986:219, Fig. V.8
L. Schele And D. Freidel, A Forest Of Kings: The Untold Story Of The Ancient Maya 1990:382, Fig. 10:2
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Schele Number:  7632
Description:  Flanged pectoral originally created by olmec craftsman in middle preclassic period; later carved with maya iconography and glyphs during preclassic period. glyphs record accession of an ajaw.
Current Location:  Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.c.
Artifact:  
Chronological Era:  Preclassic - Formative
Culture:  Maya
Object Size:  9 x 26.7 x 2.8
Publications:  L. Schele and M. Miller, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art 1986:119-120, Plate 32a
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