Alfonso Caso e Ignacio Bernal, en su libro Urnas de Oaxaca, muestran que para los mayas y los zapotecas el murciélago era una deidad muy importante y que con frecuencia se le representaba con características humanas y nunca en una forma natural.
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NYT: Smithsonian Returns Three Khmer Artifacts Thought Looted to Cambodia
The objects were the first returned under a 2022 policy requiring the institution to weigh a wider range of factors, like plunder under colonial rule, when deciding to repatriate items.
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Participando en el simposio “Monte Albán y sus interacciones regionales” organizando por la zona arqueológica de Monte Albán. Un trabajo sobre las vasijas efigies cerámicas con representaciones de ancianos.
No dudo en decir que es una obra que marca un hito en la epigrafía maya de Palenque, pues da información actualizada de todos los monumentos documentados hasta el momento, con magníficas fotografías y dibujos, acompañados de traducciones de los textos.
Felicidades a mis amigas y colegas de la @CNCPC_INAH por el premio otorgado a este importante libro sobre Palenque y sus monumentos grabados!
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Latin American Antiquity 14:221-228.
Smith, ME (2005) "Did the Maya Build Architectural Cosmograms?" Latin American Antiquity 16:217-224. I would have thought that scholars who disagreed with me would use my critique to develop better methods of identifying
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🧵The cosmogram crowd are at it again. Sigh. Cool new site, Aguada Fenix, is interpreted by Takeshi Inomata et al as a big cosmogram. The article is here: science.org/doi/10.1126/..., with a journalism article in LiveScience here: livescience.com/archaeology/.... What's wrong with that? 1/6
Hoy en Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, hablaremos sobre la repatriación de bienes culturales.
Au Mexique, un peuple préhispanique exige de la France la restitution d’un manuscrit ancestral : «Pourquoi une œuvre réalisée par mes ancêtres et qui parle de mon peuple se trouve-t-elle à l’autre bout du monde ?»
Egypt’s Grand Museum Is Finally Open. Now, ‘We Need Our Stuff Back.’
For many Egyptians, the state-of-the art museum is a stage from which to renew demands that Egypt’s most iconic antiquities belong in their homeland — not the marble halls of European museums.
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Capturing a 3D Scene in Blender, step-by-step, for the Portrait of Tenochtitlan 3D viewer. The presentation is up on youtube!
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Mexique: la restitution de deux codex préhispaniques au cœur de la visite d'Emmanuel Macron
This black-figure terracotta kantharos-rhyton has a sculpted donkey-head attachment and Dionysian figures around the body of the vessel. In fact, on the rear of the cup Dionysos is shown riding on an ithyphallic mule or donkey, so the head on the cup is Dionysos' own steed. The fun part is that when you grasp the cup by both handles and raise it to your mouth to drink, you look like you’re wearing a donkey mask, providing a great deal of chuckles from your fellow symposiasts. This appears to be the earliest preserved Attic rhyton (a vessel for wine, frequently with animal head pouring spouts), and this rhyton-kantharos as a whole is a rare preserved example of an Athenian plastic vase with black-figure decoration. In design, the donkey's tall, outward-flaring ears are echoed by the kantharos' tall looping strap handles. In order to assemble this vase, the potter cut a hole in the kantharos' bowl and precisely inserted the donkey's head, thereby forming a dual-chambered wine vessel with a large capacity. But the resulting rhyton-kantharos is overweighted toward the donkey's head, which extends down so far that the donkey's lips set the vessel off kilter, and it rests unstably on the kantharos' foot. Greek, Attic, about 520-500 BCE, possibly found in Athens. Black-figure terracotta with some pigments (purple on the Dionysian figures and red inside the donkey's mouth). Height: 21.59 cm (8.50 in.) Diameter: 13.65 cm (5.37 in.) British Museum, London (1876,0328.5)
How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/
Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me
3D reconstruction of a 3.67m-tall stone column in the shape of a feathered serpent, with its head on the ground and tail curling upwards, made up of several fragments pieced together.
NEW Atop El Castillo, Chichen Itza's largest pyramid, stand two ruined columns that once portrayed the feathered serpent deity K’uk’ulkan. 3D-imaging technologies have identified scattered fragments of these columns, allowing a digital reconstruction.
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It’s pronounced cyclist.
Felicidades Alex !
New Case: The Aubin Tonalamatl, contributed by Damien Huffer
In June 1982, Mexican attorney and journalist José Luis Castañeda del Valle entered the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris using a false student ID and permits. He convinced curators that he was a student there to study the ancient text.
New case: The Dallas Bhairava Mask
This is one of two sacred masks stolen in 1994 from Dolakha, Nepal. The masks date to c. 16th century CE and are effigies of Shiva—one of Hinduism’s most important deities.
“He has not only provided the political climate and resources for the University to turn into the empty shell that it now is, but has…given so many in our leadership the inspiration to crack down on civil and constitutional rights, attack academic freedom and turn their back on common human decency”
I had a great time releasing this at the Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City yesterday. Thank you all that could attend!
Fantástico !
It's live! My Interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan is available online. Please give it a try and let me know what you think!
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En la conferencia del Dr. Nikolai Grube, en la UNAM, sobre la escritura maya más allá de los espacios palaciegos. Muy interesante y con datos sobre la importancia de las mujeres mayas como escribas. Grato encontrar a amigos y colegas, como Christophe Helmke.
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A rectangular stone relief showing two Roman soldiers in profile advancing forward. Both wear helmets and carry large shields. The carving emphasizes movement and armor details, set against a plain background.
For #RomanFortThursday a carved pedestal from the headquarters building of the legionary fortress at Mogontiacium, present-day Mainz, depicting two #Roman legionaries. Dating 2nd half of the 1st century AD.
On display at Landesmuseum Mainz.
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Manhattan DA returns 9 antiquities to Costa Rica seized during ongoing investigations of trafficking networks targeting South and Central America.
They were smuggled into the US and laundered by through false provenances, exhibitions, and museum donations.
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Escena del periodo Cuaternario Paleolítico Inferior
Escena del periodo Cuaternario Paleolítico Inferior https://www.wikiart.org/en/jose-maria-velasco/escena-del-periodo-cuaternario-paleol-tico-inferior
Screenshot of a page from the 'Nunalleq Digital Museum' on an Indigenous Yup'ik village in modern Alaska, featuring illustrations, 3D models and information on lifeways at the village, co-curated with the descendant community.
How can heritage professionals communicate Indigenous #archaeology whilst ensuring authentic objects remain with the descendant communities? #SmithsonianDay
Digital museums allow for data sharing whilst placing sovereignty in the hands of the community.
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