But why focus on Lady Xook rather than Shield Jaguar II exclusively? The building itself is narrow, only one vault deep, so it was not intended to hold many people. Which of these artworks was not made as propaganda to supplement the power of the ruler it Now, the sculptures from all of these communities, these smaller places like El Tunel or Laxtunich, tend to be fairly emphatic in emphasizing that almost suffocating centralized control that emanates from Yaxchilan. 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. In the ninth and tenth centuries, monumental sculpture adorned palaces in Campeche and Yucatan, sometimes marking the buildings as animate mountains. Visitors to the building were thus forced to . 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. The charcoal for the barbecue was supplied by the park rangers. Yaxchilan was, as the Laxtunich lintel tells us, in a way both figuratively and literally, the sun for the local political system. HOUSTON: Thats right. At the Yaxchilan archaeological site there are fifty-eight lintels with decorative pieces spanning the doorways of major structures. 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. Direct link to green.rachael1001's post what is the size of struc, Posted 4 years ago. . What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the maya ruler shield jaguar and his wife lady xoc ( 4.6.6)? 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. The top step of Structure 33 displays rulers, including Bird Jaguar IV and his father and grandfather playing, Structure 40, Yaxchiln (Maya) (photo: Skylla UK, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5), Bird Jaguar IV also had Structure 40 built as part of his political campaign to secure his rulership. CUNO: Well, tell us about the book and the film, Quest for the Lost City. After the collapse of the Classic Period kingdoms, Maya artists at northern cities like Chichn Itz drew influence from Central Mexico and southern Central America as they adorned their temples and created spectacular offerings to their rulers and deities. And that story is not an end at all, and hopefully, it will continue for some time to come. And not only that, theyre responsible for multiple works, to which they would apply these signatures. Direct link to Jeff Kelman's post Wow that looks painful! At times, its just claptrap. So all of this tells us that this is obviously a changing group of peoples, but theyre so deeply grounded in this area. And this is a courtly society; its focused on ancient kings, their courtiers, their immediate families. What an extraordinary title. The image and the inscription both reinforce the reign of the ruler and his dynastic ties, in this case via his wife. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady XOOK? Itzamnaaj Bahlams remains lay not far, in Room 3. And what I mean by that is that they were all in its orbit. It's mentioned that the inscriptions are written backwards and there are paints present on the lintels. Seems like a close 'cousin' to the ritual practice of the Plains Indians. Its not a terribly comfortable position. how do we know that they really did worship shield jaguar, and how do we know the picture showed the queen? There would be events taking place that would be eventually recorded on this monument. The disembodied head of Chac (1978.412.24) from Chichn Itz has skeletal features that add a sinister dimension to this work from the years just before the abandonment of Maya cities. It is not very well explored, for the reason that it was very dangerous to work there for quite a long time and remains quite remote. But now Dana was interested in movie rights as well. 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. They allowed him, I think, to survive. 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. Often wooden sculptures are only recognized through the traces of a thin shell of stucco that once covered them before the wood rotted away. Tell us about that. And so these arent just random aesthetic choices, but the colors applied to the stone are going to be carrying a lot of different meanings that were vitally important to the Maya. 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. ", u-ba-ti-CHAB-li IX-CHAK?-ku-na-XOK-ki IX-k'a[ba]-la-XOK-ki IX-KALOM-TE 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. 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. is a wonderful example of Maya Classic architecture, particularly of the Usumacinta and Peten region or style as some would call it (image below). Miller, Mary Ellen, and Megan O'Neil. The sculpture Chibinda Ilunga, made by the Chokwe people of Central Africa, depicts a king as a powerful hunter. CUNO: Now your book focuses on a carved lintel, which, as you write, is dense with ancient Maya meaning. Tell us about the role of such carvings in ancient Maya culture. His son and heir, Bird Jaguar IV, continued this tradition. HOUSTON: The pigments involve a blue made of indigo thats taken from the Anil plant. HOUSTON: Yeah. 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. And he eventually produced and helped to release the Kon-Tiki movie itself in the United States. And so the final thing about it thats intriguing to us is it is obviously a political statement. Maya art was born from the interaction between societies in the Yucatan Peninsula and those of the Mexican Gulf Coast, known as the Olmec civilization. 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. 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. In the bowl are pieces of paper stained with her blood. 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. There would be the burning of incense. On Lintel 25 (above), the effects of bloodletting are on display. I suspect most of them were of wood and have long since rotted away. Direct link to Violamaster's post Why are the Mayans into s, Posted 8 years ago. 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. Direct link to Emma.Horsefan.2004's post maby it was to show the d, Posted 6 years ago. HOUSTON: Ian Graham is a legendary figure in my field. onwards, and an essential part of rulership and of all public rituals. 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. But the intent was to have a grand adventure. And thats what makes them really exciting to us, as well. 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. What proximity do they share? 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 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. The royal courts of the Maya kings and queens employed full-time painters and sculptors, some of whom signed their works. Write AAA above the verb if it is active and PPP if it is passive. . And h Music Credits 71 Lintel 10 in Structure 3 records an och k'ahk' event, as does Lintel 56 of Structure 11, while Lintel 28 of Structure 24 records a fire-entering ceremony into Lady Xook's tomb. These were located in what is known as Element 21 in Room 1 of Structure 23 at Yaxchilan. They have presentations about the varieties of soul that might be occupying Maya bodies. How does that relate, how does that site relate to El Tunel or Bonampak? Hieroglyphic Stairway #2 leads up to the building. It was Mayuy, which is a word that refers to mist and clouds. Much has been written on the extraordinary carved lintels of Tikal. Two are explicitly named as being by him. 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. AAA theater review may be influenced by factors outside of the production, such as the reviewer's opinion of the play itself and past experiences with the theater company. Anyone entering Structure 23 would pass. I recently sat down with Stephen, the Dupee Family Professor of Social Science at Brown University, to discuss the importance of the Maya lintels and their afterlife. These are all of these small communities governed by nobles, some of the petty sort, some also like magnates. But Dana also wanted to do a movie. Direct link to jay.vanderveen.personal's post The males also let blood,, Posted 7 years ago. These lintels are considered by some to be the pinnacle of Mayan art. [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. 250-900), kings and queens of powerful city . Many of the exteriors had elaborate decorations, but it is the carved stone lintels above their doorways which have made this site famous. Now the other thing that, to me, is fascinating about even considering the problem of time, the way we might conceptualize it with respect to this carving, is that the carving itself, as we studied it, tends to prefigure later carvings by this very same sculptor, so theres a rich oeuvre, we know, of his work over a ten-year span. Nonetheless, there are plans afoot to try to return to this region and to explore it in more detail. The reds we see on this are likely ferrous, and sometimes theyll glint with little inclusions. And in fact, the largest indigenous group in the United States today are speakers of Mayan languages whove immigrated here. 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. During the Classic Period (ca. And thats coming very close to the number of artists we might know, lets say, in Classical Athens. 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. Hes probably looking for a more lucrative position here in this kingdom. So at the moment, I have documented at least about 130 named carvers. He was continually perplexed by this problem of sorting out where these lintels came from precisely. 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. The queen also wears an elaborate headdress. Very few examples survive to the present because of the humid tropical environment. It isn't that much harder to learn the location of ancient art and architecture. And he needed a lost city as a selling point.. If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources on our website. Sculpture for the ancient Maya spans all media, from the miniature to the monumental, as artists gave shape to materials extracted from the landscape. Its about supporters of the king but its taken into an entirely different direction. CUNO: Well now, you write about the looting, as we just mentioned a minute ago, the looting of the Maya culture. 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. Laxtunich was a name that was concocted by Lamb. A common medium of Maya sculpture that is almost entirely lost to observers today is that of wood. CUNO: Now, you call the carved Maya stones orphaned carvings. 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. There seems to be pretty good evidence that the known carvers at Bonampak came from Yaxchilan. Then, decide whether each of the following statements is true or false. Unfortunately, like many Maya ruins, the site has since been looted, and retracing the original locations of the displaced works is challenging. We dont really know. But in point of fact, thats pretty unusual. Bloodletting was a common ritual among elites and it is one of the most frequent subjects in Maya art. Then there was the time of quarrying, in which the limestone is taken out of a stone bed. Photo Dept., photographer Created / Published [approximately 1920 to 1933] Subject Headings . How many Olmec colossal heads have been discovered? And so that was extremely distressing for the field. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces.It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. Such Maya rituals as bloodletting were only enacted on slaves. In fact, its being enveloped by the growth of that urban zone. Is elaborate the same as explain? Lady Xoc is shown here performing an important royal rite of blood letting. And that would be the kind of stone from which this lintel is made. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. 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. STEPHEN HOUSTON: Lambs objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. Direct link to Julia Kopell's post it is possible, but consi, Posted 3 years ago. There would be a carving, there would be an act of erection or emplacement. 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. He was arguably the greatest scientific explorer of the Maya in the twentieth century. As a. sapodilla, (Manilkara zapota), tropical evergreen tree (family Sapotaceae) and its distinctive fruit, native to southern Mexico, Central America, and parts of the Caribbean. 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. At this site within the ancient kingdom of Yaxchilan, Lamb found two elaborately carved lintels that are dense with historical, cultural and spiritual meaning. Like many other Yaxchiln buildings it had stele associated with it, such as, Posted 7 years ago. In Lintel 24, he is depicted holding a torch above his first wife, Lady Xoc. Modern day lintels are made using prestressed concrete and are also referred to as beams in beam and block slabs or ribs in rib and block slabs. 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. And you write that they have an unstable relationship to time. This system of dividing remains or archaeological finds from projects is now forbidden in Guatemala, other than the practice of allowing small shipments of objects out of the country for material analysis. The final sentence, which is not elevated like the other two, is an artists signature. One purpose or aim is purely intellectual. A lintel may support the chimney above a fireplace, or span the distance of a path or road, forming a stone lintel bridge. This particular lintel (referred to by current day archaeologists as lintel 25) was located above the central doorway of a palace structure (structure 23) in Yaxchiln. Very different, especially in the case of carvings and painted pots. In Yaxchilan, structure 23 is seen as the place of Lady Xoc's. All three were apparently commissioned by Lady Xoc for the doorways of Structure 23. Now, on the carvings that we studied, the blue rims of the glyphs are probably referring to the idea of preciousness. This Maya landmark was likely the carved lintel of a doorway from the site of La Pasadita in northwestern Guatemala carved in the early A.D. 770s. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. 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. HOUSTON: Thats right. But those two colors, the last ones I mentioned, red and yellow, are themselves probably reflecting the kind of refulgent solar quality of the imagery. Attached to his head band is what appears to be a representation of the Jester Mask. Maya Art and Architecture 2nd ed. Now, the pots were used anciently, for the consumption of food and drink. 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. The human head worn by Shield Jaguar over his brow may be a shrunken battle trophy. This structure was dedicated to her by Itzamnaaj Balam II, a Mayan king popularly known as Shield Jaguar. 2 : to produce by labor. Itzamnaaj Bahlam III was a central figure in directing the course of Yaxchilan. The ancestors are people literally underfoot, and theyre recorded in sequence up and down the stairway. 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. And so by walking around it, youre, in some ways, participating in whatever kinetic activity that involved. 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. 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 Modeled and carved works of fired clay show the Maya virtuosity at creating realistic figurines and elaborate vessels and incense burners. Lintel 24 is the designation given by modern archaeologists to an ancient Maya limestone sculpture from Yaxchilan, in modern Chiapas, Mexico. What was a craftsman called when they were in training? The text comprises three discrete sections. Wearing an exquisitely woven "huipil,"Lady K'abal Xook pulls a thorned rope through her tongue in the principal form of blood sacrifice perfomed by royal women. 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. Several lintels over temple doors were composed of wooden beams and contained carved scenes of royal conquest and ritual. Chakalte' Guatemalan or Mexican. The language of the inscriptions is not necessarily always reflecting the local speech. 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? Direct link to Eric Bush's post Seems like a close 'cousi, Posted 4 years ago. He clearly needed local help to get to this place where the lintels were found. And its already putting you in a kind of subordinate or supplicative position, in which youre in some discomfort trying to access them. Standing on your head in public would be considered conspicuous. Just a made up name. Its simply a bogus term he made up. 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). Coe, Michael D., and Stephen D. Houston. In 1950, the American explorer Dana Lamb happened upon a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Bricker, "Advances in Maya epigraphy,", J. Marcus, "The Iconography of Power Among the Classic Maya,", Posted 8 years ago. Lady Xook holds a bowl in her left hand while she looks up towards the rising serpent. And thats where we have a good purchase on what the Maya felt and thought about these kind of sculptures. 2 : to become elaborate (see elaborate entry 1) transitive verb. And so Lambs objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. It was April 7th, 1950. Direct link to coty.comeaux22's post what is the creature in t, Wow that looks painful! Near the Usumacinta River in Chiapas (photo: Daniel Mennerich, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). RM G169RT - Post and lintel is a simple construction method using a lintel, header, or architrave as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns, pillars, or posts. The Maya civilization in the Americas was known for its sophisticated art and monumental architecture. 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. A lintel is the horizontal beam that spans the opening between two upright architectural elements. Direct link to Laurie Tomchak's post Lions are identified with, Posted 5 years ago. Non-structural decorative lintel at Buddhist Banteay Srei, in Cambodia, Non-structural lintel in Buddhist cave temple at Ellora Caves, India, Door lintel in Bozen-Bolzano from 1632 with Elias Tagger's coat of arms, South Tyrol, Italy, Non-structural marriage stone lintel at 'The Hill' farm, Dunlop, East Ayrshire, Scotland, One of many 16th century door lintels in Edinburgh's Old Town, Simonsbath House, Simonsbath, Exmoor Parish, Devon. Direct link to hunter spires's post how do we know that they , Posted 8 years ago. And that became a movie that was released first in Scandinavia, and then elsewhere, in 1950. Which emperor created a colossal statue of himself to be placed in a basilica in the center of And Ive sometimes wondered if that had to do with an attempt to heighten their claim to authenticity. Many different building materials have been used for lintels.[1]. In Lintel 24 and 25, Lady Xoc is seen performing blood sacrifice in one or another way. And ultimately, should it be feasible, I think theres an interest, potentially, in repatriation by some process, legal or otherwise. STEPHEN HOUSTON: Lambs objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. "Her image at the penance, the cut lady, Ix Kabal Xoc, female autocrat. And then the final touch, which really, really caused us great joy when we figured this out, is that the two underlings are literally also lifting the lintel itself. and a number of its buildings stand to this day. But beyond that, there are far more ethereal matters being discussed in the surviving textual record from that time and also in the imagery. Subtle differences in the three lintels suggest that the compositions were completed by two or three different artists. 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. It mustve been an exceedingly uncomfortable hike. Its also very helpful if you plan to travel to one of the locations. [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. 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). His undergraduate degree was in physics, of all things. And we have made, I think, a persuasive argument that the four lintels came from two separate buildings. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc (4.6.5)? He, too, wears an elaborate headdress, a breastplate and ear spools. 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. 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