False What technique was used to create the portrait of King Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their three daughters (4.6.6)? And its already putting you in a kind of subordinate or supplicative position, in which youre in some discomfort trying to access them. So its part of the same world. JIM CUNO: Hello, Im Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust. I cannot remember the source I got this from, will find it soon. Its a little bit sad, in that Ive actually seen correspondence from Dana and Ginger, and the letterhead has the heading of Dan and Ginger Lamb, Exploration and Motion Pictures. But there would be only one movie called Quest for the Lost City, which was released in the 1950s and went into broad distribution. And thats what makes them really exciting to us, as well. The ruler was believed to be a descendent of the gods, and the act of bloodletting was of critical importance in maintaining their power and order in the community. It was a significant Maya center during the Classic period (250-900 C.E.) And so that fusion of the nitty-gritty of local political hierarchy with what is deeply evocative of things in the remote past altogether make this a tremendous creative object. How many Olmec colossal heads have been discovered? And in those smaller sites and in those isolated pockets would be lintels, of which quite a few are known from this area. HOUSTON: El Tunel is Laxtunich, in our opinion. The rope falls on to an open codex. HOUSTON: Its a term that comes from the ancient world, particularly in Egypt, in which many objects flowed out to museums. The rock-cut excavated cave temples were more durable, and the non-load-bearing carved stone lintels allowed creative ornamental uses of classical Buddhist elements. Lintels 24 and 25 are on permanent display in the British Museum's Mexican Gallery. Researchers found that one of the beams from Lintel 3 was cut and carved between AD 658-696 (Kennett et al. And we know that Lamb heard about this ruin when he was in the jungle beginning this filming project. 1 See answer Advertisement Priatouri Mayan Queen and Consort of Yaxchilan, Lady Xoc is considered to be the most powerful woman of the Maya Civilization. [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. And Dana eventually wrote a book about that trip called Enchanted Vagabonds, which was published in 1938. Hieroglyphic Stairway #2 leads up to the building. Lintels 15, 16 and 17 replicate the scenes carved on the three lintels in Structure 23, constructed by Bird Jaguar's father, Shield Jaguar II. Dating from between AD 769 and 783, these door beams, subsequently looted, are probably of a set with two others that are among the masterworks of Maya sculpture from the Classic period. Why are there 3 doors on most of the temples here? And then often, these kinds of carvings among the Maya are either ritually deactivated or they might be destroyed by enemies. Now, what we know about Lamb, Dana Lamb, is that he comes across as a blundering neophyte in this deep jungle. Lintel 24 is the designation given by modern archaeologists to an ancient Maya limestone sculpture from Yaxchilan, in modern Chiapas, Mexico.The lintel dates to about 723-726 AD, placing it within the Maya Late Classic period. In this episode, Stephen Houston, editor of A Maya Universe in Stone, explores the production and complex afterlives of these Maya objects. "Her image at the penance, the cut lady, Ix Kabal Xoc, female autocrat. 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. CUNO: Whats the size of the descendant population of Maya today? It is remembered today primarily for its Hindu temples' mandapa, lintels, and other architectural elements, such as at the Chennakesava Temple. 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. CUNO: Well, tell us about the book and the film, Quest for the Lost City. Wooden lintel over kitchen fireplace with carved date of 1654, Lintel above the entrance to Jagdschloss Grunewald, Germany, "Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture - Lintel", "NCRP Report 151 Structural shielding design and evaluation for megavoltage x-and gamma-ray radiotherapy facilities", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lintel&oldid=1116905316, This page was last edited on 18 October 2022, at 23:23. Theyre almost communicating the idea that the writing is bejeweled in some ways. Non-structural Mayan ornamental lintel stone, from the Yaxchilan city site in Chiapas, southern Mexico. Direct link to Emma.Horsefan.2004's post maby it was to show the d, Posted 6 years ago. A kind of random set of collisions and experiences over time. Now, he, in this volume, decided to go look for primitive nativesthats very much in quotation marksin rawest jungle. And I even use this analogy of trying to date a boat simply by when a champagne bottle was broken on its prow at the time of launching. And therere also many, many devastations. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He was arguably the greatest scientific explorer of the Maya in the twentieth century. Bricker, "Advances in Maya epigraphy,", J. Marcus, "The Iconography of Power Among the Classic Maya,", Posted 8 years ago. And by simply compiling or collecting as much information as he did, its led to great advances in Maya decipherment, especially in the last three to four decades. Write AAA above the verb if it is active and PPP if it is passive. HOUSTON: The stone itself is a depiction of four figures, and probably a mythological being, as well. For the AP exam, is it important to know where everything is located in present time? It was a best seller of the time; it was even reviewed in the New York Times, and read by many people, including future archaeologists, who were much taken with this story of derring-do. CUNO: So help us understand the topography and vegetation of the area and how consistent it is across Guatemala. And ultimately, we want to be able to extract information about the political, the cultural, and the aesthetic circumstances of its creation. Structure 23 is therefore important not only for advertising Shield Jaguar IIs power, but also for highlighting the important role of royal women in Maya culture. Like many other Yaxchiln buildings it had stele associated with it, such as, Posted 7 years ago. And what I mean by that is that they were all in its orbit. The Hoysala Empire era was an important period in the development of art and architecture in the South Indian Kannadiga culture. And thats where we have a good purchase on what the Maya felt and thought about these kind of sculptures. And these figures are always looking down on you, in a way that the Maya thought of the ancestors as doing on a perennial basis. And then eventually, there is the act and process of looting itself, by which these carvings are traveling around the world by boat or jet. Her elaborately carved huipil is trimmed with fringe and pearls. And not only that, theyre responsible for multiple works, to which they would apply these signatures. What kind of stories do the reliefs tell, and do they tell different stories than the vases tell? And there were probably about twenty to twenty-five, depending on how you understand the evidence, named calligraphers. It was a significant Maya centerduring the Classic period (250-900 C.E.) In 1950, American adventurers Dana and Ginger Lamb traveled to the jungles of northern Guatemala looking for Maya ruins and a story they could turn into a movie. 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. It also gives us another level of, you might say, ethical or epistemological or interpretive responsibility, in that there are descendant communities that we need to address, and for whom we will frame how we come to conclusions in, I think, a very careful way. Yaxchiln lintel 24 (detail), after 709 C.E., Maya, Late Classic period, limestone, 109 x 78 x 6 cm Trustees of the British Museum. Sculpture for the ancient Maya spans all media, from the miniature to the monumental, as artists gave shape to materials extracted from the landscape. The sculpture occupies almost the . And its not so much in details, but its what you might say have to do with rituals, with covenants of duty, with relations to land, and indeed, to time itself. And down below are two other figures. Review the vocabulary list for "Uncle Marcos". But the sculptures are always being modulated, to some extent, and I think deliberately so, according to the wishes of the carvers and their patrons, whenever someone walks up to them, whenever one wants to look at them. And indeed, for much of its existence, it was a dependency of Yaxchilan, which was the superordinate, dominant kingdom in this area. The sculpture Chibinda Ilunga, made by the Chokwe people of Central Africa, depicts a king as a. Though of no great commercial importance in any part of the . Scrolls of blood can be seen around her mouth. In this lintel, Lady Xook (in the lower right) kneels before a vision serpent, from whose mouth emerges a figure. James Doyle But beyond that, there are far more ethereal matters being discussed in the surviving textual record from that time and also in the imagery. And he needed a lost city as a selling point. u baah ti chabil ix chakan xook Ix Kabal Xook ix kalomte Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress, The blog has moved! Lady Xoc is shown here performing an important royal rite of blood letting. Were all very busy with other projects, but its obvious that weve laid out what could potentially be a successful research program to return to this area, to excavate places like El Tunel, to recover even more of the meaning of these lintels, perhaps to find other fragments that would be left behind. And I was being, I think, a little audacious in that statement I just made about stability, because obviously, looting does thrive in conditions of instability. HOUSTON: Thats right. Examples of the ornamental use of lintels are in the hypostyle halls and slab stelas in ancient Egypt and the Indian rock-cut architecture of Buddhist temples in caves. Modeled and carved works of fired clay show the Maya virtuosity at creating realistic figurines and elaborate vessels and incense burners. And Ive sometimes wondered if that had to do with an attempt to heighten their claim to authenticity. He was continually perplexed by this problem of sorting out where these lintels came from precisely. The final sentence, which is not elevated like the other two, is an artists signature. What effect it might have on the physical condition of the limestone of which the Mayan stones are primarily made. The males also let blood, but rather than using their tongues, they threaded the rope through (and also pierced with a sting ray spine) their genitals. Its not a terribly comfortable position. These are all of these small communities governed by nobles, some of the petty sort, some also like magnates. Some of the most famous lintels are those on Structure 23a yotoot (palace building . Is it just the appearance, that it seemed to be so much similar one to another? 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. CUNO: Well, lets turn now to the particular lintel stone We mentioned the name of Dana Lamb. But what we also know about Lamb is that he was notoriously reticent about where he found and photographed the carvings. So he mustve been very concerned with being out in the forest, with being prepared for every possible contingency. Which of these artworks was not made as propaganda to supplement the power of the ruler it All three were apparently commissioned by Lady Xoc for the doorways of Structure 23. It is probably made of shell or jade plaques, as are her wrist cuffs. The human head worn by Shield Jaguar over his brow may be a shrunken battle trophy. It is carved, as are all the sculptures of Piedras Negras, of a buff-colored limestone which is soft and easily carved while wet. The capture of sacrificial victims was an essential aspect of Maya warfare, as they were necessary for many rituals. But even the coloration of the stone lintels that were looking as is similar to what you might see in the paintings, and also the carvings, that help to define the doorways leading into the great murals at Bonampak. What does it mean when someone says elaborate? 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. Direct link to Stf Murison's post I cannot remember the sou, Posted 6 years ago. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc? . Unfortunately, like many Maya ruins, the site has since been looted, and retracing the original locations of the displaced works is challenging. 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. And so the lintels, we think, both in this particular series, but also in all of those spread without this kingdom, tend to be very bold statements about control, at a time in which it is probably beginning to fray. 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. Lintel 24 is the designation given by modern archaeologists to an ancient Maya limestone sculpture from Yaxchilan, in modern Chiapas, Mexico. Such Maya rituals as bloodletting were only enacted on slaves. And we have made, I think, a persuasive argument that the four lintels came from two separate buildings. Naming someone for a Jaguar would be a little like how in Catholic countries people were named using the Saints' Days Calendar. We dont really know. Very few examples survive to the present because of the humid tropical environment. Near the Usumacinta River in Chiapas (photo: Floating down the Usumacinta River in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala, various Maya sites materialize out of the dense jungle, some rising above the canopy and others subsumed by a tangle of green growth. At the Yaxchilan archaeological site there are fifty-eight lintels with decorative pieces spanning the doorways of major structures. And then finally, its a time in which we have really pretty strong evidence for a kind of hegemonic empire that is centered on one important kingdom in particular, Calakmul. CUNO: Were there pots found at the same site as the lintel itself? CUNO: What about pigmentation? Olowe created this veranda post, one of several, for the exterior courtyard of a Yoruba palace. Lintel 24, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum) (view a diagram of this relief and locate this relief on a map), Lintel 24, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum) (, On Lintel 24, Lady Xook pulls a thorned cord through her tongue so that she can bleed, Lady Xook pulls a thorned cord through her tongue (detail), Lintel 24, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum). 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. And in fact, the largest indigenous group in the United States today are speakers of Mayan languages whove immigrated here. Nonetheless, there are plans afoot to try to return to this region and to explore it in more detail. And h Music Credits Was the rope thick, of was it thin, because the picture makes the rope look very thick, but it would be hard to pull a super thick rope through your TONGUE! And the carver that the local lord employed to create this piece, a person whose name we know, Mayuy, was almost certainly from an antagonistic dynasty to the north, a place called Piedras Negras, which is quite renowned in the history of Maya culture and civilization. A glyphic inscription (oddly, written backwards) in the upper left corner of Lintel 25 notes the date of Shield Jaguar IIs ascension to the throne in October 681. They allowed him, I think, to survive. Because there really is zero doubt that this carving was taken from Guatemala when local laws prohibited such removal, whatever the international laws and regulations of that time. 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. The beam depicts a female wearing an elaborately woven textile dress, a quetzal-feather headdress, and fine jade regalia. And in a way, theres a sort of studied inattention from the part of the figures on the lintel; theyre not looking at the viewer down below. And ultimately, should it be feasible, I think theres an interest, potentially, in repatriation by some process, legal or otherwise. CUNO: Now, give us an outline of the history of the ancient Maya. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mayas/hd_mayas.htm (April 2016). The term iconic refers to something that has become famous and has widely recognizable. CUNO: This episode was produced by Zoe Goldman and Karen Fritsche, with audio production by Gideon Brower and mixing by Myke Dodge Weiskopf. Ian tried hard to get to the bottom of that story, but he was never able to do so. And they probably wouldve done this trip earlier, but World War II intervened. He was a sprig of the ducal tree of the Dukes of Montrose in Scotland, so he came from a very distinguished background. Maya sculptors also invested a monumental amount of labor in portable goods made of stone. (5 Eb, 15 Mak in the maya calendar). These prestressed concrete lintels and blocks are components that are packed together and propped to form a suspended floor concrete slab. 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. Shield Jaguar II's commissions at Yaxchiln's central complex of buildings (called the Central Acropolis) include carved lintels (the beam at the top of a doorway), stairs faced with hieroglyphic writing, and stele (upright wood or stone slab monuments). And he was well known for guiding and promoting the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc (4.6.6)? And what they also tell us is that this sculptor introduced idiosyncratic, brilliant effects, and that he asserted his identity in ways that were not otherwise known in the corpus of Maya carvings. And also liked to indulge in himself the fun of roughing it, which mustve been every scouts dream. The use of the lintel form as a decorative building element over portals, with no structural function, has been employed in the architectural traditions and styles of most cultures over the centuries. 250-900), kings and queens of powerful city . [5], Lintels may also be used to reduce scattered radiation in medical applications. Laxtunich was a name that was concocted by Lamb. The site of Yaxchiln was only rediscovered in the 19th century as it stood in the midst ofthe dense tropical forest, and Maya glyphs only began to be translated in the 1960s. 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. Explain your answers. And its also about that time, or maybe a century or so before, that theres a lot of contact with the great city, the metropolis, of Teotihuacn, which is pretty close to what is now Mexico City. In thislintel above, Bird Jaguar IV dominatesa captive. 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. 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. Not necessarily of royal commissions, but ones that are undertaken by local nobility. 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. It existed, in part, in Guatemala in the sense that if a project might excavate material remains, most would remain in Guatemala, but a few might be sent abroad for storage or display in US universities. And there were at least two in the ancient building that he explored back there in the spring of 1950. Its a white clay. Direct link to Jin Park's post It's mentioned that the i, Posted 4 years ago. The contour and incised lines of the lintels possess a calligraphic quality, as if they were drawn or painted rather than carved. And he eventually produced and helped to release the Kon-Tiki movie itself in the United States. Some of it can be super soft; its almost like talc powder. Which emperor created a colossal statue of himself to be placed in a basilica in the center of But Dana also wanted to do a movie. 4 Wei-Cheng Lin, . CUNO: Now, tell us about the stone itself. 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. He clearly needed local help to get to this place where the lintels were found. Now, what makes this lintel fascinating for us, at least in political terms, is that this monument and the other carvings that come from buildings nearby are not from the actual dynastic capital, which was called Yaxchilan, but rather they derive from a pretty small site thats on the troubled margins of that kingdom. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and. The Narmer Palette is the name of an elaborately carved shield-shaped slab of gray schist made during the Old Kingdom of Dynastic Egypt (ca. And this may, in turn, account for the kind of micro kingdoms or the political fragmentation that are illustrated or exemplified by the carving weve been looking at. 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. The one scholar who heard from him on this subject in the 1950s was the doyenne of my studies, someone named Alfred Tozzer at Harvard. Bloodletting was a common practice in Maya life from the Late Preclassic period (400 B.C.E.- 250 C.E.) Lady Xoc is one of the most prominent and probably politically powerful women in the Maya civilization. And so all of this tells us that they were very much concerned with the physical placement of these carvings, but also how humans would interact with them. ", Posted 8 years ago. I mentioned that he was an amateur gentleman. And it is opening up all sorts of exciting possibilities of interpretation. The Maya rain god, known as Chac, also features prominently in later Maya art. In The Armada Portrait, it is suggested that Queen Elizabeth is: Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of George Washington was made from: Napoleon Crossing the Alps depicts the moment before Emperor Napoleon was to meet the. Lintel 25 made the journey in 1883. [2] We are able to study the detail of Mayan weaving as depicted in these carvings, and see the pearls woven into the fabric. Two are explicitly named as being by him. 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. HOUSTON: Ian Graham is a legendary figure in my field. But really, what were talking about here are the lintels. 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. These objects are often found in burials and other archaeological contexts, though other perishable materials, like the rope and the bark-paper strips seen on the lintel, are now lost. Now, its also true that Laxtunich was lashing Ian, you might say. 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. [1] Its mid-relief carving depicts the ruler of Yaxchilan, Itzamnaaj Bahlam III, and his consort Lady Kabal Xoc, performing a ceremony of bloodletting; the imagery is also accompanied by descriptive captions, and (unusually for a Maya monumental text) a signature by the sculptor, Mo Chaak. He, too, wears an elaborate headdress, a breastplate and ear spools. Direct link to green.rachael1001's post what is the size of struc, Posted 4 years ago. Elaborately carved gate lintel Contributor Names American Colony (Jerusalem). 2 : to become elaborate (see elaborate entry 1) transitive verb. Yaxchiln is located on the south bank of the Usumacinta River, in Chiapas, Mexico. And you write that they have an unstable relationship to time. Preceding prehistoric and subsequent Indian Buddhist temples were wooden buildings with structural load-bearing wood lintels across openings. Direct link to Maia Diamonstone-Cruz's post Forgive me if this seems , Posted 5 years ago. HOUSTON: I think the way to look at this civilization is, again, to mostly pay attention to this Classic period that is more or less the first millennium AD. The carvings, however, are of a different sort. Or could it be that dissimulation and mendacity had simply become a mode of life for him? ti ho (?) Mayan Queen and Consort of Yaxchilan, Lady Xoc is considered to be the most powerful woman of the Maya Civilization. Direct link to Sophia McManus's post In the section Lintels 2, Posted 5 years ago. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. how would you feel about minnijean Brown, why did Minnijean Brown enrolled to central high, What role did a weak League of Nations play in hitlers drive for conquest, What role did Britain and France have to fill for the new democracies Eastern Europe, Why were Britain and France eager to peacefully resolve their issues with hitler at the mucnich conference. Direct link to dv.cneff's post water, salt, 1920s, 1798,, Posted 2 years ago. 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. And Martin having been the cook on Jack Londons voyages. Doyle, James. It was removed to the Museo Nacional de Antropologa e Historia in 1964. Throughout this considerable literature one encounters arguments and corrections as to which structures and doorways the various lintels, long removed from the site, originally pertained. Or what else would there be? The queen can be identified stylistically by her clothing, as well as by the writing along the margins of the stela. Now, what we were able to do, and especially Andrew Scherer, whos my colleague who focused in this most particularly, is to go to the remaining papers that Lamb donated to the Sherman Library in Corona del Mar, down in California. Lady Xook (detail), Lintel 25, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum). Today, its an area thats under onslaught. Structure 40 (above) sits in the South Acropolis, flanked by two other structures. In Yaxchilan, structure 23 is seen as the place of Lady Xoc's. 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. 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