Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures
Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures

Maya Relief-Carved Pottery Cylinder Vessel depicting Hero Twin and Underworld Creatures

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Late Classic Period Circa 600 to 900 AD

A deeply carved terracotta ritual vessel of cylindrical form with a gently flaring, exterior-beveled rim, finished in warm reddish-orange and burnished buff slip. The outer walls feature a dynamic mythological narrative framed by vertical panel borders and a prominent vertical doorway line representing a liminal portal to Xibalba (the Maya Underworld).

On one side of the portal stands a human lord, likely one of the Hero Twins from the Popol Vuh (Hunahpu or Xbalanque), depicted with a raised and ready club or ceremonial staff guarding or denying passage through the portal. Emerging through the doorway—shown half-in and half-out of the threshold—are various mythological and underworld creatures (wayob), including a monkey, a predatory bird, a jaguar, and an anthropomorphic creature with an animal head.

Dimensions: 4 3/8 in (11.1 cm) Height x 4 in (10.2 cm) Diameter.

Provenance: Collection of Walker Murray Randle, Granbury, Texas.

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