Exploring the Early Americas

The Jay I. Kislak Collection

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Stone Artifact with Incised Hieroglyphs

Stone Artifact with Incised Hieroglyphs (034.00.00)

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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.
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.