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Stone Artifact with Incised Hieroglyphs
Stone torus with incised hieroglyphs. Guatemalan Lowlands. Maya, AD 489. Limestone. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00)
Photo ©Justin Kerr, Kerr Associates
Carved Mirror-Back With Hieroglyphs
Carved mirror back with hieroglyphs. Guatemalan Lowlands. Early Classic Maya, AD 200–600. Greenish slate with red cinnabar. K4829. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (034.01.00)
Photo ©Justin Kerr, Kerr Associates
Tortuguero Box
The wooden offering container of Aj K'ax B'ahlam of Tortuguero. Mexico. Tabasco. Maya, AD 681. Wood (sapodilla) and red hematite. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (038.00.00)
Maya City of Palenque
Ricardo Almendáriz (fl. ca. 1787). Coleccion de estampas copiadas de las figuras originales . . . del Pueblo Palenque (Collection of drawings copied from the original figures . . . of the village of Palenque)[1787]. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (036.00.03)
First Report on the Maya Ruins of Palenque
Antonio del Rio (fl. 1786–1789). Description of the Ruins of an Ancient City, Discovered near Palenque. . . . London: Henry Berthoud, and Suttaby, Evance and Fox, 1822. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (037.00.03)
Family History of a Spanish Merchant
Genealogy and Family History of Merchant Alférez Ignacio López de Herrera and wife . . . (1703–1739), Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (039.00.04)
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