Incensario Lid
Incense Burner Lid
| Object Number: | 2019-11-7.2 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Teotihuacan (Culture) |
| Provenience: | Mexico (Central America) Atzcapotzalco |
| Culture Area: | Central American |
| Period: | Teotihuacan V |
| Date Made: | 200-500 CE |
| Early Date: | 200 |
| Late Date: | 500 |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Height: | 41.7 cm |
| Width: | 25 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Vaillant Family in memory of George C. Vaillant, 2019 |
| Other Number: | L-144-9b - Old Loan Number T20 / 16 - Collector Number |
Description
Red ware. In two parts. Relativly inaccurated restoration. Lower part (A): shallow flaring bowl with offset flaring annular base; 3 rosettes around "waist". Upper part (B): short truncated cone set with rosettes on front half; surmounted by human head with enormous headdress of rosettes and birds' heads.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Mayan Gallery (1954 - 2001) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Mesoamerican Gallery (23 Mar 2001 - 2018) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Mexico and Central American Gallery (16 Nov 2019) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2014. History of the World in 1,000 Objects.. London. Dorling Kindersley Limited. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 107 Top row, third from left | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Danien, Elin. 2002. Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 70, pl. 68 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Collection] 1965. Guide to the Collections, The University Museum.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. pg. 1-167 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 88 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Mason, John A. 1943. "The Valley of Mexico: American Collections: The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 10. no. 1-2. pg. 9-26 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 19, fig. 11 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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