New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Plate

Artist Unknown

CultureMexican | Maya | Pre-Columbian

Date600-900

MediumCeramic | Paint

DimensionsOverall: 2 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (5.7 x 36.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Edwin Pearlman

Object number84.355

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DescriptionLarge plate, painted in red, black and gray on orange ground. Within black circular band is stylized head of Choc, the Rain God. Tendrils with blossoms emerge from his head, as well as feathered appendages. Red rim band and wide interior band containing glyph sequences and temple forms; kill hole.

Published ReferencesAndrew Finegold, _Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture_ (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021) 40, fig. 3.3(e).