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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Urn with Sun God-Jaguar God of the Underworld on Lid
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Urn with Sun God-Jaguar God of the Underworld on Lid

Place CreatedGuatemala, North America
CultureMaya
PeriodEarly Classic
Date250-550 CE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineGift of Cora W. and Laurence C. Witten II
Dimensions7 13/16 x 5 1/16 x 5 3/16 in. (19.8 x 12.8 x 13.1 cm)
Object number1992.015.176
Exhibition HistoryHuman Body: Human Spirit, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 15, 1993 - January 30, 1994
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, May 17, 1994 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - Present
Published ReferencesCarolyn Elaine Tate and Beatriz de la Fuente, Human Body, Human Spirit: A Portrait of Ancient Mexico (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1993), 15.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 93.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 3, figure. 1.
Karen M. O'Day, "A Study of Painted Pottery from Sitio Conte Cemetery, Panama," PhD. diss., Emory University, 2002, figure 5.27.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, "Human-Animal Imagery, Shamanic Visions, and Ancient American Aesthetics," RES (Spring 2004): 52, figure 5.
Augustin Segui, "Piernas flexionadas como jaguar," in XXXI Congresso Internacional de Americanistica: Imaginario e memoria: da representacao, ed. Edmundo Antonio Peggion et al. (Perugia:Universita degli Studi di Perugia, 2009), 233-41.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 86.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 63-64, figures 3.1 - 3.3.
ProvenanceEx coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora (1931-2023) Witten, United States, acquired ca. 1960-1985.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas