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Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Funerary Cache Box
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Funerary Cache Box

Artist Unknown
CultureGuatemala | Maya | Pre-Columbian
MediumTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 3 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (9.5 x 18.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number78.519
Collections
On View
On view
DescriptionFunerary cache box; Teotihuacan style. Burial box in shape of sarcophagus of the sun; decorated with the "tears of the sun" on lid and body of box. Body of priest in funeral pose inside with original offering of copal incense. Only one of its kind in Teotihuacan style from Maya area of Guatemala.

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