Maya Universe in Stone
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Author_Stephen Houston
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Brandeis
Brown
California Riverside
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Chiapas
collecting
Corona del Mar
Dana Lamb
El Tunel
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Ginger
gods
Guatemala
hieroglyphs
iconography
Itzam
La Pasadita
Laxtunich
lintel
looting
Mayuy
Mesoamerica
Mexico
New World
orphaned carvings
patrimony
Peru
Piedras Negras
Precolumbia
provenance
provenience
repatriation
reprovenance
rituals
royalty
ruins
sculpture
Sherman Library
Texas
thievery
Tikal
University
William Palmer III
Yaxchilan
Zotz
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- ISBN 9781606067444
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2021
- Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Lamb failed to record the location of the site he called Laxtunich, turning his find into the mystery at the center of this book. The lintels he discovered there, long since looted, are probably of a set with two others that are among the masterworks of Maya sculpture from the Classic period. Using fieldwork, physical evidence, and Lamb's expedition notes, the authors identify a small area with archaeological sites where the carvings were likely produced.
Remarkably, the vividly colored lintels, replete with dynastic and cosmic information, can be assigned to a carver, Mayuy, who sculpted his name on two of them. To an extent nearly unique in ancient America, Mayuy can be studied over time as his style developed and his artistic ambition grew. An in-depth analysis of Laxtunich Lintel 1 examines how Mayuy grafted celestial, seasonal, and divine identities onto a local magnate and his overlord from the kingdom of Yaxchilan, Mexico. This volume contextualizes the lintels and points the way to their reprovenancing and, as an ultimate aim, repatriation to Guatemala.
Stephen Houston is Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University.
