Pre-Columbian Maya Head Fragment – Guatemala A particularly rare and significant

A particularly rare and significant feature of this vessel is the explicitly modeled genital detail located at the underside of the vessel

New York (see inv

3000–2000 BCE – Anatolia (Modern-day Turkey)

at field boundaries

matched pairs are virtually unknown

Pre-Columbian Maya Head Fragment – Guatemala A particularly rare and significantPre Columbian Maya Head Fragment Guatemala, Late Classic Period, ca. 600900 CE This finely modeled pottery head fragment portrays an elite Maya individual distinguished by elegantly rendered facial features, almond shaped eyes, full lips, and prominent earspools. The figure wears a carefully sculpted headdress incorporating a braided or wrapped element across the crown, an adornment associated with rank and ceremonial attire among the Maya nobility.