Very different, especially in the case of carvings and painted pots. And the buildings themselves are doubtless going to contain some remains of pieces left behind by the looters. It really begins to take off in about AD 100 or so. Lamb was notoriously reticent about where he discovered the carvings, turning his find into an archeological mystery at the heart of the new book A Maya Universe in Stone, edited by Stephen Houston and published by the Getty Research Institute. And I personally thinkthis is my own perspectivethat for study purposes, small collections of pot shards and animals bones can still be responsibly stored and researched abroad. Her pierced tongue allowed her blood to flow as part of a ritual communication with gods and spirits. CUNO: So help us understand the topography and vegetation of the area and how consistent it is across Guatemala. It might be that the ruler wanted to promote his lineage and power through his principal wife (who had more prestige than his other wives). Miller, Mary Ellen, and Megan O'Neil. The first two glyphs in the text at the top of the lintel indicate the event and the date on which it took place, October24, 709 C.E. And so thats expressed in all sorts of rituals that are still ongoing in Guatemala, in Belize, in Mexico, and also in Honduras, in which we have supplications of deities and forces of mountains and water. Its like the Appalachia, you might say, the Maya region. And theyll involve or project very elaborate scenes of captives being taken in battle, and also in the ensuing tribute that would come from the feet of enemies. By pulling the rope studded with obsidian shards through her tongue, she causes blood to drip onto paper strips held in a woven basket to be burned as depicted on Lintel 25. Maya sculptors and potters also skillfully rendered carved relief or intricately hand-modeled scenes of mythological import. For the ancient Maya, jade objects embodied the color blue-green (the spectrum of blues and green was referred to as one word, yax, in the Classic Mayan language), which symbolized new growth, water, and primordial places and beings. Elaborately carved gate lintel Contributor Names American Colony (Jerusalem). Theyre almost communicating the idea that the writing is bejeweled in some ways. He was continually perplexed by this problem of sorting out where these lintels came from precisely. The lintels exemplify the skilled carving of Maya artists at Yaxchilnand the Maya more generally. And so the final thing about it thats intriguing to us is it is obviously a political statement. Some of the most famous lintels are those on Structure 23a yotoot (palace building . Other royal scepters (1979.206.1132) and ritual regalia were carved out of jadeite and other greenstones. "Lady K'abal Xook pulls a thorned rope through her tongue in the principal form of blood sacrifice perfomed by royal women." Its because he was essentially self-supporting, Jim. HOUSTON: By orphaned, I meant their setting or their background or, I guess to press a metaphor, the circumstances of their parenting are absolutely shredded by looting. Lady K'abal Xook pullinga thorned rope through her tongue (detail). It has been logged and given over to cattle farming or to intensive agriculture. Theyre like Swiss cheese, Jim. Structure 33 rests on the side of the main plaza, making it a focal point for the area. Unfortunately, like many Maya ruins, the site has since been looted, and retracing the original locations of the displaced works is challenging. Modern day lintels are made using . A lintel or lintol is a type of beam that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. There were some yellows, as well, that are probably made out of some other kind of mineral. Then there was the time of quarrying, in which the limestone is taken out of a stone bed. Piedras Negras, where I excavated quite a bit in the nineties, is a good example of this, in which half the ceramics went to Philadelphia, to the University of Pennsylvania Museum; and the remainder stayed there in Guatemala City. A beautiful diamond pattern decorates Lady Xooks huipil, for instance, in Lintel 24 (below). And you say that it thrives in conditions of relative stability. On Lintel 25 (above), the effects of bloodletting are on display. HOUSTON: There isnt a Maya ruin Ive ever visited And Ive visited literally hundreds, if not thousands, at this point, including ones that are often under heavy guard. And at those moments, there would be the impersonations of gods, in which their ethereal substance would be housed in the flesh of the dancer. And so by walking around it, youre, in some ways, participating in whatever kinetic activity that involved. And these were very much the center of the publication for the Getty. The king is wearing his hair back with quetzal feathers indicating that he will also let blood in this ceremony. And it tends to vary enormously in quality. All rights reserved. Other stone, however, is almost crystalline in hardness. And because of documents that Lamb left behind, we have a great deal of information about what Lamb did when he got to this place. Ian tried hard to get to the bottom of that story, but he was never able to do so. HOUSTON: Ian Graham is a legendary figure in my field. CUNO: Well, lets turn now to the particular lintel stone We mentioned the name of Dana Lamb. And so in many ways, the worst looting in Guatemala actually took place also, I would say, prior to that terrible civil war in that country. A ruler or other elites (including women), would let blood to honor and feed the gods, at the dedication ceremony of a building, when children were born, or other occasions. And so there is, in our mind, very, very little doubt that Laxtunich, which was so vaguely specified as to location by Dana Lamb, is this place called El Tunel. And in this is limestone, which the carvings made out of. onwards, and an essential part of rulership and of all public rituals. And this is something weve known about for some time, but its only recently being documented to a fuller extent. It suggests that everything is with respect to the Classic period. In thislintel above, Bird Jaguar IV dominatesa captive. Direct link to Stf Murison's post I cannot remember the sou, Posted 6 years ago. And for me, the task of this kind of scholarship that is exemplified in this book, we think, is to retrieve that knowledge in various ways and for various objectives. Look closely at the detail below. Direct link to Jeff Kelman's post I just thought as I was r, Posted 7 years ago. And this came as something of a controversy in my field because everyone had assumed there was a local expression of whatever language might be spoken at that time. Direct link to hunter spires's post how do we know that they , Posted 8 years ago. Which is the guerillas not only had this commendable ethos of protecting ruins, they were committed to an ideological perspective about patrimony in the country; but really for a practical reason, they did not want looters padding through the forest in ways that might potentially report on the location of guerilla combatants, and then pass on that information to the military. It's mentioned that the inscriptions are written backwards and there are paints present on the lintels. I mentioned that he was an amateur gentleman. ", u-ba-ti-CHAB-li IX-CHAK?-ku-na-XOK-ki IX-k'a[ba]-la-XOK-ki IX-KALOM-TE Direct link to Emma.Horsefan.2004's post maby it was to show the d, Posted 6 years ago. In fact, their canoe for these trips, The Vagabunda, is on display in the lobby of a mens club in Los Angeles called The Adventurers Club. And then it concludes, I would say, with what we call the Post-Classic, which is a very tendentious term. Its got a nose, its got an eye. Why did the looting take place? (Late Classic period, 600-900 CE). Many different building materials have been used for lintels.[1]. Laxtunich was a name that was concocted by Lamb. Its one of these very, very few acts of self-reference that occur in Maya writing. Such objects had and continue to hold great historical, aesthetic, and spiritual significance for Maya people and descendants. By choosing to take part in the ritual, the queen demonstrated both her moral and physical strength to the people, and her suitability as a Maya royal. The entrances of important buildings usually received decorative carving or painting. all of these were propagandistic artworks, Recognition of Neurological Progression/Deter, The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric, Lawrence Scanlon, Renee H. Shea, Robin Dissin Aufses, Eric Hinderaker, James A. Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, Robert O. Self, Byron Almen, Dorothy Payne, Stefan Kostka, Coastal ecosystems - coral reefs (Edexcel iGC. The scenes are carved in high relief with carefully incised details decorating the raised surfaces. In this episode, Stephen Houston, editor of A Maya Universe in Stone, explores the production and complex afterlives of these Maya objects. HOUSTON: Thats right. So that if you see a stele or an upright stone monolith on a Maya plaza, for the Maya, it was a being or a ruler, usually, who is shown in perpetual, almost frozen, dance. And then from the dates on the monument, we also know that theyre focusing on the equinox, on the break between the Maya dry season and the Maya wet season, a time in which things grow in very different paces. The Classic Period derives its name from an early comparison with the Greekclassical world: the time in which artists reached the pinnacle of naturalistic and beautiful artistic achievement. The civil war tended to suppress it; it tended to stop the more brazen acts of criminality. Near the Usumacinta River in Chiapas (photo: Daniel Mennerich, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). And so to some extent, each one of those language groups and the ethnic groups they represent have had their own varied history of research. Yaxchiln lintel 16 (commissioned by Bird Jaguar IV for Structure 21), after 752 C.E., Maya, Late Classic period, limestone, 76.2 x 75.7 cm, Mexico Trustees of the British Museum. Direct link to Cassandra Bristol's post From what materials were , Posted a year ago. And they are shown in the lintel as Atlantean beings who are literally supporting the sky itself, in which the king and his magnate appear. Direct link to Jin Park's post It's mentioned that the i, Posted 4 years ago. And h Music Credits Several lintels over temple doors were composed of wooden beams and contained carved scenes of royal conquest and ritual. And Ive often wondered, as have others, why didnt he eventually fess up? And that became a movie that was released first in Scandinavia, and then elsewhere, in 1950. Tell us about that. 250-900), kings and queens of powerful city . The sculpture Chibinda Ilunga, made by the Chokwe people of Central Africa, depicts a king as a powerful hunter. Note: the monuments and objects uncovered at Yaxchiln are numbered in the order in which they were foundso Lintel 1 is not the oldest, but rather the first to be excavated by archaeologists. The text comprises three discrete sections. The Maya civilization in the Americas was known for its sophisticated art and monumental architecture. Lambs objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. The headdress also contains knotted cloth and vegetal elements, as well as shorter, spotted feathers. It weighs 120 tons, with approximate dimensions 8.3 5.2 1.2 m,[2] one of the largest in the world. An inscription on the lintel reads October 20, 681, the date of Lord Shield . This limestone lintel, considered one of the masterpieces of Maya art, is one of a series of three panels from Structure 23 at Yaxchiln, where it was set above the left (south-east) doorway. Lintels may be visible or recessed in the roof of the facility, and reduce dose rate in publicly accessible areas by reducing the maze cross section. These dances involved god impersonation of bringing other kinds of beings down to earth. If you're behind a web filter, please make sure that the domains *.kastatic.org and *.kasandbox.org are unblocked. And we can understand by looking at all of these carvings, which are sometimes which sometimes affix his signature, how he developed, what fascinated him, how he grafted, in this instance, a political arrangement between a king and a magnate-lord onto a pattern that really gets into complex iconography or imagery. "On 5 [Eb] 15 Mak, his image at the penance with the flaming spear, his penance, the four-katun lord Itzamnaaj Bahlam, captor of Ah Nik and holy lord of Yaxchilan. It was removed to the Museo Nacional de Antropologa e Historia in 1964. CUNO: What about pigmentation? The lintel measures forty-nine by twenty-four inches and is five and a half inches thick. Naming someone for a Jaguar would be a little like how in Catholic countries people were named using the Saints' Days Calendar. Why are the Mayans into sacrificing themselves or someone and they depict the gods as these harsh deities that will kill them if they don't constantly try to sacrifice? Lady Xoc is shown here performing an important royal rite of blood letting. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. emperors. The other thing to remember about Dana is that he was a very early Boy Scout and he was a committed scout master. In the same way artists worked the hard stone, they also delicately cut and incised marine and freshwater shell, animal bones, and even human bones. Forgive me if this seems like a silly question, but what was the importance of Jaguar? These are all of these small communities governed by nobles, some of the petty sort, some also like magnates. In the ninth and tenth centuries, monumental sculpture adorned palaces in Campeche and Yucatan, sometimes marking the buildings as animate mountains. and a number of its buildings stand to this day. And the rest of their lives were leavened by little more than an occasional talk about their grand adventure to the Lost City. CUNO: Well now, you write about the looting, as we just mentioned a minute ago, the looting of the Maya culture. And thats where we have a good purchase on what the Maya felt and thought about these kind of sculptures. But the pigments were cooked in such a way as to cause them to blend in a manner that could be successfully applied to the surface. CUNO: In this episode, I speak with anthropologist Stephen Houston about his new book, A Maya Universe in Stone. HOUSTON: It was a book that was coauthored by Dana with his wife Ginger, but it was partly ghosted by a bookseller named June Cleveland. Theyre living in palaces; there are populations that are going into the millions; we have intensive agriculture, trade, economic tribute. It was the center around which they tended to revolve. And Martin having been the cook on Jack Londons voyages. This architectural system and building method has been co. RM DYEKET - Lintel from Yaxchilan 690 A.D. These lintels are considered by some to be the pinnacle of Mayan art. Hieroglyphic Stairway #2 leads up to the building. The structure 23 does not depict warfare which differentiates it from other structures build during Jaguar's time. It is possible that this is Bird Jaguar IV. Then, decide whether each of the following statements is true or false. The other thing about the lintel that intrigues us is down below, supporting these two very exalted individuals, are other people in the pecking order politically. u baah ti chabil ix chakan xook Ix Kabal Xook ix kalomte HOUSTON: They were a couple from California who first undertook, in the thirties, a canoe trip from their state all the way down to Panama. In the case of windows, the bottom span is instead referred to as a sill, but, unlike a lintel, does not serve to bear a load to ensure the integrity of the wall. When used as verbs, elaborate means to . The image and the inscription both reinforce the reign of the ruler and his dynastic ties, in this case via his wife. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. Intricate latticework covers the symmetrical roof-comb and the buildings overall style is reminiscent of buildings found at other important Classic Maya city-states like Palenque. Lintel 25 (below)from the central doorwayalso focuses on a bloodletting ritual carried out by Lady Xook. Other relief sculptures, such as Lintel 45 on Structure 44, show Shield Jaguar II with war captives to commemorate his victory in battles against rival city-states. But also, as I mentioned before, that the setting truly matterswhere the building was found, what that building might have presented architecturally, what might be the archaeological deposits nearby. Lintels 24, 25 and 26, set above the three doorways of Structure 23, depict a series of rituals performed by Shield Jaguar II and his wife. Welcome to Art and Ideas, a podcast in which I speak to artists, conservators, authors, and scholars about their work. In the bowl are pieces of paper stained with her blood. tabiiy yuxul mo chaak aj hixiil? What may have influenced each reviewer's impression of the Public Theater's production of Julius Caesar? But beyond that, there are far more ethereal matters being discussed in the surviving textual record from that time and also in the imagery. The blues are symbolically important because theyre linked to jade and to other sorts of precious substances, such as the Quetzal plumes that come from this adorable bird from highland Guatemala that has a tiny body, but an immensely long set of green plumes, which were also prized by the ancient Maya. In worldwide architecture of different eras and many cultures, a lintel has been an element of post and lintel construction. And so many of them went to, of all places, Canada, which was, of course, part of the British Empire as well, until fairly recently. So all of this tells us that this is obviously a changing group of peoples, but theyre so deeply grounded in this area. Highly skilled artisans were able to simulate the look of wood, imitating the nuances of a wooden structure and the wood grain in excavating cave temples from monolithic rock. So what were doing in the Getty book is we are probing what were calling the afterlife of these carvings, as well, after theyre removed from this home. Its also a time in which theyre probably using a kind of lingua franca, the elites are speaking one language and its not at all clear that anyone else is communicating in that speech. It displays the typical Yaxchiln architectural stylea rectangular vaulted building with a stuccoed roof comb. Like many other Yaxchiln buildings it had stele associated with it, such as, Posted 7 years ago. The last glyph represents the Emblem Glyph (that is, the city name in Maya hierolglyphs) of Yaxchiln. CUNO: Now, you call the carved Maya stones orphaned carvings. On what basis can you determine that there is a corpus of works by the same single sculptor? 4 Wei-Cheng Lin, . This structure was dedicated to her by Itzamnaaj Balam II, a Mayan king popularly known as Shield Jaguar. Hooper 2006 A large and complete example of a type of carved panel (pare or korupe) fitted above the doorway of a chief's house, and later above the doorway of elaborately carved meeting houses (which began to be built around 1840). But there wouldve been loggers; there wouldve been people out there tapping whats called the chicozapote or sapodilla tree, in order to extract the sap that would eventually make its way into chewing gum, at that time. ti-5-EB 15-ma-AK-u-ba-hi ti-CHAB-li ti-KAK-la-ju-lu u-CHAB-4-WINIKHAB-AJAW ITZ-BALAM-ma-u-cha-CHAN-nu a-NIK-ki KUHUL-[PA]CHAN-AJAW And you write that they have an unstable relationship to time. represents? A lintel or lintol is a structural horizontal block that spans the space or opening between two vertical supports. But he made it his job to go out and record all of these carvings before they were looted, and to retrieve as much of their context as possible. CUNO: Now, when and under what circumstances was this particular carved lintel found? And its playing out in his full body of work. Why didnt he release more detailed information about where the lintels mightve come from? [6], Structural lintel over entrance, Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece, The lintel stone at the Treasury of Atreus (external view), The lintel stone at the Treasury of Atreus (internal view), Structural lintel over the entry to main Buddhist shrine, Phimai historical park, Thailand, Shebna Inscription on a lintel of a tomb cave near Jerusalem, 8th/7th century BCE, Structural lintel with a lauburu and founders' names, above traditional Basque houses in Lower Navarre, Spain. Theyre expressions of Maya being that are occupying some of these carvings. But also, as with the ruler and the magnate above, theyre identifiable in the writing, in the text nearby, as flesh-and-blood real underlings of the time. This site is using cookies under cookie policy . . In addition to her patterned huipil (square-cut blouse), Lady Xook is festooned with a headdress, elaborate bracelets, earrings, and a necklacelikely made of jade. And then other ones are highly marshal, very belligerent in their imagery. The term iconic refers to something that has become famous and has widely recognizable. Direct link to jay.vanderveen.personal's post The queen can be identifi, Posted 8 years ago. Lintel 26 was discovered in 1897 by Teobert Maler. HOUSTON: Well, we have a few examples of reliefs that have essentially transferred designs from pots. Yaxchiln lintel 24 (detail), after 709 C.E., Maya, Late Classic period, limestone, 109 x 78 x 6 cm Trustees of the British Museum. Or at least it was the claim of that dynasty. For the AP exam, is it important to know where everything is located in present time? It would be a nice marketing twist and a climax to his story. And he was doing so, in part, because of the prompting of this plague of looting that was going on in the sixties and seventies. 9th ed. It is strung from a jade bead necklace that is counterbalanced by a long strand of jade beads and what are probably carved shells going down his back. He never recorded, Lamb did, any precise information about the location of the lintels. Does lintel 26 depict the same thing? And in those smaller sites and in those isolated pockets would be lintels, of which quite a few are known from this area. CUNO: How do they relate to painted vases of the same period, the same area? In Lintel 24, he is depicted holding a torch above his first wife, Lady Xoc. The uppermost describes Itzamnaaj Bahlam, where the second raised section describes Lady Xoc. Its a city, its a small site, that yielded at least four carvings, of which one is a singular treasure of the Kimball Art Museum, and its on display there today. His son and heir, Bird Jaguar IV, continued this tradition. And indeed, for much of its existence, it was a dependency of Yaxchilan, which was the superordinate, dominant kingdom in this area. Theyre found in many, many palaces. "His sculpture was erected, Mo Chaak, he of Hixil?". While they appear to have been carved years apart from one another, they seem to show a narrative. The resources and tools necessarylimestone quarries, chisels, blades, and polishing stoneshave been found by archaeologists. The sculpture Chibinda Ilunga, made by the Chokwe people of Central Africa, depicts a king as a. Coe, Michael D., and Stephen D. Houston. She kneels in front of Shield Jaguar who holds a great torch described in the text as a "burning spear illuminating a ritual that was probably held at night or set in the dark recess of a private chamber. 1 : to expand something in detail would you care to elaborate on that statement. And what were those pigments made of? And the lintels are features of buildings that span doorways. Hes a bit of a turncoat. Belize has also had, traditionally, this system, especially, I would say, in the sixties, in which there really were not adequate storage facilities or places to display objects in Belize in that period. It is probably made of shell or jade plaques, as are her wrist cuffs. [1] Called an architrave, the lintel is a structural element that is usually rested on stone pillars or stacked stone columns, over a portal or entranceway. How close are they to each other and how much of Guatemala are they? In Lintel 24 and 25, Lady Xoc is seen performing blood sacrifice in one or another way. a bloodletting ritual Such Maya rituals as bloodletting were only enacted on slaves. And at the same time, concurrently, there was, I would also say, a mounting or growing interest, in places like New York City or in Europe, in what was then called primitive art, a term, of course, we eschew completely at this point. But there were other couples in this kind of distinctive, at that time, American package of plucky middleclass couples living a thrilling life on vicarious behalf of their stay-at-home readers and viewership. And thats when we start seeing very large cities, in fact, of a scale, of a magnitude that really is seldom documented even anywhere else in the world. And in fact, the largest indigenous group in the United States today are speakers of Mayan languages whove immigrated here. Look for new episodes of Art and Ideas every other Wednesday, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms. So at the moment, I have documented at least about 130 named carvers. Like Structure 23, carved lintels form the underside of each of the doorways on Structure 33. ti ho (?) Are there pigments left on the stone still? On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Now, its also true that Laxtunich was lashing Ian, you might say. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. Itzamnaaj Bahlam III was a central figure in directing the course of Yaxchilan. The queen also wears an elaborate headdress. Mayan Queen and Consort of Yaxchilan, Lady Xoc is considered to be the most powerful woman of the Maya Civilization. Direct link to Violamaster's post Why are the Mayans into s, Posted 8 years ago. He was arguably the greatest scientific explorer of the Maya in the twentieth century. Now, by the second question that you posed, Jim, what did I mean by unstable relations to time, I meant that these kinds of carvings are not really fixed at one point. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and. Such Maya rituals as bloodletting were only enacted on slaves. But each one of them is intensively looted. The contour and incised lines of the lintels possess a calligraphic quality, as if they were drawn or painted rather than carved. Such careful attention to detail as well as the formal qualities of the line compare to other Maya sculptures, as well as vase painting and murals. I suspect most of them were of wood and have long since rotted away. For photos, transcripts, and other resources, visit getty.edu/podcasts and if you have a question, or an idea for an upcoming episode, write to us at podcasts@getty.edu. Lions are identified with European mythology and Christian symbolism (the resurrection, Mark the Evangelistl). An elaborate roof-comb (a masonary wall that rises upwards above a building to give the impression that it is taller than it actually is), arguably the most famous component of the temple, incorporates a decorative frieze, niches, and sculptural elements, including a sculpted human being in the central niche. Not necessarily of royal commissions, but ones that are undertaken by local nobility. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the maya ruler shield jaguar and his wife lady xoc ( 4.6.6)? There they encountered a rich cache of decorated structures made in the first millennium CE, including a particularly elaborate limestone lintel (a horizontal support above a doorway) carved by an artisan named Mayuy. Bricker, "Advances in Maya epigraphy,", J. Marcus, "The Iconography of Power Among the Classic Maya,", Posted 8 years ago. (P) 2006 Nonesuch Records, Inc., Produced Under License From Nonesuch Records, Inc. ISRC: USNO10600825 & USNO10600824. And then the final thing to remember about all of these carvings is that theyre interacting with changing meteorological circumstances. The jester mask is considered analogous to the glyph for kingship, ajaw, and is named so for the vegetation often depicted coming from the crown of it. Tell us what partage means in principle and what it means in practice. (5 Eb, 15 Mak in the maya calendar). 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