In this panel, probably from a palace interior, the woman’s static posture contrasts with the liveliness of the creature she holds, a God-K sceptre of royalty with a serpent leg and a grotesque head with a smoking torch on its brow. (The same deity is shown in the nearby Eccentric Flint.) Her name or title: "Sahal K'utim" (also found on El Cayo Altar 4 of A731.) Other signs of high rank are her jade jewelry and woven huipil, its beauty suggesting that textiles and featherwork were great Maya arts, now lost to a tropical climate. The hieroglyphics refer to an undefined ritual that the woman completed in 795, and the continuation of a family name for Sahals – subjects of the larger site, Piedras Negras.
Maya style, Mexico or Guatemala, Usumacinta River region, Late Classic Period, 600-900
Object history
1962: purchased by Cleveland Museum of Art from Stolper Galleries, New York City
Exhibition history
The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art, Cleveland Museum of Art; Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 1986
Year in Review – 1962, 24 October 1962–25 November 1962
Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada (organizer); Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada, 19 November 2011–28 October 2012
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