Exploring the Early Americas
The Jay I. Kislak Collection
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Stone Artifact with Incised Hieroglyphs
This remarkable incised stone object from the Guatemalan Lowlands dates to AD 489. Recent scholarship indicates that the artifact may have been attached atop a staff and used in the Maya ballgame. Nine hieroglyphs encircle the object dedicating the object to a prince on August 5, 489.