Exploring the Early Americas
The Jay I. Kislak Collection
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Stone Artifact with Incised Hieroglyphs
About this item
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.