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Exploring the Early Americas The Jay I. Kislak Collection
Incised Creamware Vessel (24)

Guatemalan Lowlands. Maya, AD 550–900.
Ceramic with a cream-colored slip and cinnabar highlighting in the glyphs.
Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (24)

Incised Creamware Vessel 

This well-proportioned cylindrical vessel is finely incised on both sides with a diagonal glyphic text.  One side refers to a specific god, on the reverse side, carefully formed elements refer to the mixing of copal and cacao liquids, probably for ritualistic uses.