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

Ancient American Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 105

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.