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Face Fragment
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About this work
This thick, heavy ceramic face fragment may come from an incensario (incense burner). Several features, including the tau- or T-shaped front teeth, suggest it represents a deity known today only as G1 due to difficulties in translating its Maya name, which is recorded in hieroglyphs. The deity’s meanings are equally elusive, though it seems to be associated with both the sun and water.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFace Fragment, 600–1000. Mexico, Palenque region(?), Maya. Molded pottery; overall: 15.5 x 13 x 9 cm (6 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener, 1990.179
