Hieroglyphic Panel
Maya
650–800
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- 28.6 × 26.7 × 3.8 cm (11 1/4 × 10 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- stone
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
stoneHieroglyphsmesoamericanamericaslimestonecarbonate rocksedimentary rocklate classicmayanrocksculpturemayainorganic materialclassicArts of the AmericasPre-Columbiandecorative artsarchitectural fragmentart of the americasdatesHistory
About
The Maya developed hieroglyphic writing to record the names, births, marriages, alliances, victories and coronations, and deaths of their rulers. Mythological events and religious happenings were also carefully chronicled. Today scholars are deciphering this script and linking the translated information to additional archaeological evidence in order to reconstruct ancient Maya history, belief, and culture. This fragment from a hieroglyphic panel contains calendrical information that was part of a longer text.
