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). 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. They obviously, from an abundance of evidence, injected a certain life and vitality into their carving. 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. "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. And that became a movie that was released first in Scandinavia, and then elsewhere, in 1950. But as we discovered, the book is full of almost laughable fabulations. Direct link to Joss Glenn's post For the AP exam, is it im, Posted 7 years ago. Itzamnaaj Bahlams remains lay not far, in Room 3. It suggests that everything is with respect to the Classic period. And we know the exact date. 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. HOUSTON: Well, we have a few examples of reliefs that have essentially transferred designs from pots. Maya sculptors also invested a monumental amount of labor in portable goods made of stone. is a wonderful example of Maya Classic architecture, particularly of the Usumacinta and Peten region or style as some would call it (image below). 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. And it remained, until recently, I think, one of the great mysteries of Maya imagery, as to where these objects, which had fascinated so many scholars, mightve come from. Why didnt he release more detailed information about where the lintels mightve come from? Miller, Mary Ellen, and Megan O'Neil. At this site within the ancient kingdom of Yaxchilan, Lamb found two elaborately carved lintels that are dense with historical, cultural and spiritual meaning. The lintel measures forty-nine by twenty-four inches and is five and a half inches thick. He is shown wearing a pectoral with a representation of the sun god depicted. I mentioned that he was an amateur gentleman. 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. [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. And he was well known for guiding and promoting the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources on our website. For the AP exam, is it important to know where everything is located in present time? Event and date Emplym Glyph Name Glyph: The artists name are carved into the lintels Action: The blood is dripping onto some paper in a basket She is kneeling She is wearing: Ceremonial blood leading costume In zigzag pattern there is the axis mundi The cross is the intersection of the universe Carved from one piece of wood, the composition combines two classic Yoruba icons of power and leadership. 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 you say that it thrives in conditions of relative stability. But in point of fact, thats pretty unusual. It is carved, as are all the sculptures of Piedras Negras, of a buff-colored limestone which is soft and easily carved while wet. Its also very helpful if you plan to travel to one of the locations. 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. The entrances of important buildings usually received decorative carving or painting. How close are they to each other and how much of Guatemala are they? 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. So at the moment, I have documented at least about 130 named carvers. Figure emerges from the mouth of a vision serpent (detail), Lintel 25, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum). Now, he, in this volume, decided to go look for primitive nativesthats very much in quotation marksin rawest jungle. CUNO: Were there pots found at the same site as the lintel itself? New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. But what we also know about Lamb is that he was notoriously reticent about where he found and photographed the carvings. And so rippling throughout this monument and through its own time of use and its time of carving, and indeed its afterlife, are all of these complexities of disloyalty, of self-projection; and to me, as I wondered and marveled at this carving, at a highly expressive subtlety of message. Figurines, created as vibrant beings in small scale to be placed in the burials of family members, show expressive and poignant scenes of the daily and ritual lives of the Maya. 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). What do you mean by that? And also liked to indulge in himself the fun of roughing it, which mustve been every scouts dream. A lintel may support the chimney above a fireplace, or span the distance of a path or road, forming a stone lintel bridge. holajun mak u baah ti chabil ti kakal jul u chab chan winikhaab ajaw Itz[amnaaj] Bahlam u chan Aj Nik kuhul Pachan ajaw Now, the pots were used anciently, for the consumption of food and drink. HOUSTON: El Tunel is Laxtunich, in our opinion. HOUSTON: The pigments involve a blue made of indigo thats taken from the Anil plant. 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. The ancestors are people literally underfoot, and theyre recorded in sequence up and down the stairway. This limestone lintel is one of a series of three panels commissioned by Bird Jaguar IV for Structure 21 at Yaxchiln and was once set above the right-hand (north-west) doorway of the central chamber. How did they know how to translate mayan glyphs? Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lintels 24 and 25 are on permanent display in the British Museum's Mexican Gallery. The artist was careful to show such minute details as the strings that are tied to hold on the wrist cuffs worn by both royals, and the pattern woven on Itzamnaaj Bahlams beautiful cape. (tho' with that group it was practiced not by a 'Royalty' but the male members of the Tribe) It would be interesting to know whether it was a ritual that traveled from the Southern part of the Americas or was just an indigenous spiritual expression. In Yaxchilan, structure 23 is seen as the place of Lady Xoc's. And a good place for that wouldve been the Chiapas rainforest of Mexico, on the border between Guatemala and Mexico. And so it was largely concealed. Its about supporters of the king but its taken into an entirely different direction. When used as verbs, elaborate means to . The term iconic refers to something that has become famous and has widely recognizable. So they are very much part of the firmament of the United States, as well. Lintel 24 was found in its original context alongside Lintels 25 and 26 in Structure 23 of Yaxchilan. The rope falls on to an open codex. Other stone, however, is almost crystalline in hardness. To log in and use all the features of Khan Academy, please enable JavaScript in your browser. The lintels show the elaborate costumes of the king and queen with remarkable detail and an uncharacteristic lack of abstraction. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. And that would be the kind of stone from which this lintel is made. "Her image at the penance, the cut lady, Ix Kabal Xoc, female autocrat. Direct link to Eric Bush's post Seems like a close 'cousi, Posted 4 years ago. On what basis can you determine that there is a corpus of works by the same single sculptor? 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 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. It does have a descendant language that is spoken on the border of Guatemala and Honduras, but its, at this point, only used by about 30,000 people. Accession rituals, for example, entailed the offering of dedicatory human sacrifices to mark the enthronement of a new ruling lord. 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. How does that relate, how does that site relate to El Tunel or Bonampak? Doyle, James. u baah ti chabil ix chakan xook Ix Kabal Xook ix kalomte Could these lintels have been used as lithographs? Now, what we know about Lamb, Dana Lamb, is that he comes across as a blundering neophyte in this deep jungle. And he needed a lost city as a selling point.. (Late Classic period, 600-900 CE). What was a craftsman called when they were in training? Thanks for listening. Structure 33, Yaxchiln (Maya) (photo: Graham Duggan, CC BY-ND 2.0). And Ive often wondered, as have others, why didnt he eventually fess up? Its like the Appalachia, you might say, the Maya region. It was the center around which they tended to revolve. And it is opening up all sorts of exciting possibilities of interpretation. In freestanding Indian building examples, the Hoysala architecture tradition between the 11th and 14th centuries produced many elaborately carved non-structural stone lintels in the Southern Deccan Plateau region of southern India. Plate I Stone Lintel from Maya Temple at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, About A.D. 750. It is odd that the men didn't have to "pull a thorned rope" through. In other words, was it that rich a visual area? This architectural system and building method has been co. RM DYEKET - Lintel from Yaxchilan 690 A.D. [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. Lady Xoc is shown here performing an important royal rite of blood letting. Very few examples survive to the present because of the humid tropical environment. 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. And what they tell us is that these carvings were made by an identifiable, superlative sculptor whose name we know and can decipher. Later sculpture from the Maya area follows radically different conventions. The contour and incised lines of the lintels possess a calligraphic quality, as if they were drawn or painted rather than carved. The civil war tended to suppress it; it tended to stop the more brazen acts of criminality. It took place because this area, which had been almost unimaginably remote until the sixties, suddenly experienced an influx of people coming from other parts of Guatemala; individuals and families being forced out of land by oligarchs or by a land grab by a few very wealthy people up in the highlands of Guatemala. It is probably made of shell or jade plaques, as are her wrist cuffs. 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. But the intent was to have a grand adventure. CUNO: You write about the historical practice of partage. HOUSTON: The area is well endowed with carvings. Is it just the appearance, that it seemed to be so much similar one to another? It was Mayuy, which is a word that refers to mist and clouds. 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. This site is using cookies under cookie policy . The queen also wears an elaborate headdress. 9th ed. Chakalte' Guatemalan or Mexican. 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. Theyre part of the same creative explosion towards the end of the eighth century AD. A lintel or lintol is a structural horizontal block that spans the space or opening between two vertical supports. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. The giant portrait that hangs over Tiananmen depicts one of the founders of ancient China. 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. 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. Bird Jaguar was Yaxchiln's most prolific builder and at least a dozen major structures were initiated or remodelled during his reign. 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. The red would contrast intensively with that. Lintel 25 (below)from the central doorwayalso focuses on a bloodletting ritual carried out by Lady Xook. Recent excavations have unearthed what is thought to be the tombs of Itzamnaaj Bahlam and Lady Xoc within Structure 23. Maya Art and Architecture 2nd ed. Direct link to green.rachael1001's post what is the size of struc, Posted 4 years ago. CUNO: This episode was produced by Zoe Goldman and Karen Fritsche, with audio production by Gideon Brower and mixing by Myke Dodge Weiskopf. In the Metropolitans Relief with Enthroned Ruler (1979.206.1047), the patron Shield Jaguar IV is seated on the right of the composition, receiving tribute from Tiloom, one of his subsidiary rulers. 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 the rather sad thing about them is after this trip south that led to the discovery of the lintel in 1950, they never did any more voyages. Before the construction of Structure 23, there was a hiatus in building at Yaxchiln for about 150 years. 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. One building was constructed a bit early; the later came about ten years after that. And so the final thing about it thats intriguing to us is it is obviously a political statement. And I would be also shocked if Mayuy, the carver that weve been examining, didnt know the painters, didnt know the carvers at Bonampak. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and. And it tends to vary enormously in quality. Two are explicitly named as being by him. It has been logged and given over to cattle farming or to intensive agriculture. Bricker, "Advances in Maya epigraphy,", J. Marcus, "The Iconography of Power Among the Classic Maya,", Posted 8 years ago. So it is above all, a very acutely hierarchical society, and language became, I think, part of the equipment they employed to accentuate those differences. The Yaxchiln lintels were originally painted, although only traces remain, including red on Lady Xooks clothing and the brilliant Maya blue color on the background of Lintel 24. Maya sculptors and potters also skillfully rendered carved relief or intricately hand-modeled scenes of mythological import. The identity of this figure is debated; some scholars claim it is an ancestral figure while other believe it is Shield Jaguar II or perhaps even Lady Xook. In Lintel 24 and 25, Lady Xoc is seen performing blood sacrifice in one or another way. The text comprises three discrete sections. So in all of these, what you do see is a kind of theme that threads through them, which is the stories had to be often rather desultory, like life itself. 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. And what I mean by that is that they were all in its orbit. 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. HOUSTON: The next part of the project is to get back to the jungle. In the image below, you can see that the figure emerging from the vision serpents mouth is armed with a shield, spear and a war helmet. But why focus on Lady Xook rather than Shield Jaguar II exclusively? Yaxchilns ruling dynasty rose in the 4th century C.E., but its heyday followed several hundred years later (during what art historians call the Classic period), with Lord Shield Jaguar II who ruled for 60 years beginning in 681. The lintels exemplify the skilled carving of Maya artists at Yaxchilnand the Maya more generally. 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. But in Guatemala, in the place particularly where this lintel comes from, looting was actually suppressed by the conflicts between the guerillas and the Guatemalan army from a period of about 1997 and about fifteen years before. What proximity do they share? Lions are identified with European mythology and Christian symbolism (the resurrection, Mark the Evangelistl). This sacrifice mirrored the Maya story of creation, when the gods let their blood to create the human race. Its not a terribly comfortable position. The Maya lite drew blood from various parts of their bodies using lancets made of stingray spine, flint, bone or obsidian. Naming someone for a Jaguar would be a little like how in Catholic countries people were named using the Saints' Days Calendar. There would be events taking place that would be eventually recorded on this monument. tabiiy yuxul mo chaak aj hixiil? The image and the inscription both reinforce the reign of the ruler and his dynastic ties, in this case via his wife. Visitors to the building were thus forced to . ", Posted 8 years ago. Ancient Maya limestone carving from Yaxchilan in modern Chiapas, Mexico, The lintel as displayed in the British Museum, Museo Nacional de Antropologa e Historia, Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III, Amun in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa, Kition Necropolis Phoenician inscriptions, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yaxchilan_Lintel_24&oldid=1109549671, Ethnographic objects in the British Museum, Artefacts from Africa, Oceania and the Americas in the British Museum, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 10 September 2022, at 14:44. 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. HOUSTON: This lintel was first seen by an adventurer named Dana Lamb. The relief panel would have been installed parallel to the floor of the entrance of a temple at La Pasadita. Non-structural Mayan ornamental lintel stone, from the Yaxchilan city site in Chiapas, southern Mexico. Not a conventional way of getting from one place to the other. She has likely burned the paper to allow the blood to ascend to the gods, and to bring about the vision serpent. Now, I would also say theres a forensic objective here, too, which is sorting out who took these lintels from their homewho orphaned them, so to speak. Direct link to toxicfoltgms's post what is a vent guys idk i, Posted 8 years ago. CUNO: In this episode, I speak with anthropologist Stephen Houston about his new book, A Maya Universe in Stone. He clearly needed local help to get to this place where the lintels were found. The uppermost describes Itzamnaaj Bahlam, where the second raised section describes Lady Xoc. "Lady K'abal Xook pulls a thorned rope through her tongue in the principal form of blood sacrifice perfomed by royal women." 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 then other ones are highly marshal, very belligerent in their imagery. Our theme music comes from the The Dharma at Big Sur composed by John Adams, for the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in 2003 and is licensed with permission from Hendon Music. And its almost impressive to me, in that its almost as though they protest too much, because this is within a couple of decades of the collapse of Maya civilization, and it could be this frenetic cultural activity has something to do, in fact, with a kind of Band-Aid or a way of disguising what could have been fracturing tensions within this kingdom. Hieroglyphic stairways are also kinetically fascinating from an interpretive viewpoint because you, of course, walk up and down them, but what is often depicted on them, in terms of imagery, or recorded on them in terms of hieroglyphic inscriptions, would be a succession of rulers over time. It is possible that this is Bird Jaguar IV. How do we know the names of those mentioned in the article? 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 But I think at least, there could be, wherever these monuments areand one is in a very securely known location, in a museum in Texaswe want to know, or at least to recognize, where they came from, so that that can be advertised and specified very precisely, because I do think transparency and honesty about these things are virtues, and that we can employ knowledge in their service. This buildings construction is therefore important, and so too are the individuals it showcases. Hieroglyphic Stairway #2 leads up to the building. Review the vocabulary list for "Uncle Marcos". maby it was to show the detail of the rope. And in fact, the largest indigenous group in the United States today are speakers of Mayan languages whove immigrated here. There seems to be pretty good evidence that the known carvers at Bonampak came from Yaxchilan. 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. The sculpture Chibinda Ilunga, made by the Chokwe people of Central Africa, depicts a king as a. Researchers found that one of the beams from Lintel 3 was cut and carved between AD 658-696 (Kennett et al. Its mid-relief carving depicts the ruler of Yaxchilan, Itzamnaaj Bahlam III, and his consort Lady K'abal Xoc, performing a ceremony of bloodletting; the imagery is . A beautiful diamond pattern decorates Lady Xooks huipil, for instance, in Lintel 24 (below). And so by walking around it, youre, in some ways, participating in whatever kinetic activity that involved. 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