CUNO: Well, lets turn now to the particular lintel stone We mentioned the name of Dana Lamb. Many different building materials have been used for lintels.[1]. In other words, the earlier periods, paradoxically, are much, much better understood. And in fact, the largest indigenous group in the United States today are speakers of Mayan languages whove immigrated here. Anyone entering Structure 23 would pass. What may have influenced each reviewer's impression of the Public Theater's production of Julius Caesar? 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. And there were at least two in the ancient building that he explored back there in the spring of 1950. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. Getty staff select highlights of Getty multimedia, new and from the archives. It suggests that everything is with respect to the Classic period. Rulers needed to shed blood in order to maintain order in the cosmos. Maya sculptors also invested a monumental amount of labor in portable goods made of stone. Its a little bit sad, in that Ive actually seen correspondence from Dana and Ginger, and the letterhead has the heading of Dan and Ginger Lamb, Exploration and Motion Pictures. But there would be only one movie called Quest for the Lost City, which was released in the 1950s and went into broad distribution. During the Classic Period (ca. Seems like a close 'cousin' to the ritual practice of the Plains Indians. But tell us who Dana and Ginger Lamb were and why they feature so prominently in your book. He was arguably the greatest scientific explorer of the Maya in the twentieth century. 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. The contour and incised lines of the lintels possess a calligraphic quality, as if they were drawn or painted rather than carved. 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. it is possible, but considering the size of the monolith it would be quite difficult to print anything. He commissioned some of the most famous sculptural works at the site. Was the rope thick, of was it thin, because the picture makes the rope look very thick, but it would be hard to pull a super thick rope through your TONGUE! For the AP exam, is it important to know where everything is located in present time? What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc (4.6.62 a. a bloodletting ritual b. a sexual act c. a sacrifice of a child d. a play c an animal hunt 11. Shield Jaguar IIs commissions at Yaxchilns central complex of buildings (called the Central Acropolis) include, Some of the most famous lintels are those on Structure 23a yotoot (palace building) showing Shield Jaguar IIs wife, Lady Kabal Xook. And they also tell us that he was able to craft within this object a masterful political statement that aligned politics with understandings of that time of cosmos, and even of creation, and also vice versa. 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. Lamb was notoriously reticent about where he discovered the carvings, turning his find into an archeological mystery at the heart of the new book A Maya Universe in Stone, edited by Stephen Houston and published by the Getty Research Institute. Its like the Appalachia, you might say, the Maya region. a bloodletting ritual Such Maya rituals as bloodletting were only enacted on slaves. Bird Jaguar ascended the throne ten years after his father died, suggesting that there was perhaps a conflict about who was to become Yaxchilns ruler. The text on the left of the panel contains the name and titles of Lady K'ab'al Xook. And these were very much the center of the publication for the Getty. And the rest of their lives were leavened by little more than an occasional talk about their grand adventure to the Lost City. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the maya ruler shield jaguar and his wife lady xoc ( 4.6.6)? Its not as important as Yaxchilan. What does it mean when someone says elaborate? HOUSTON: Today, its very much close to a number of millions. Tell us what partage means in principle and what it means in practice. 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). 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. And we know the exact date. Near the Usumacinta River in Chiapas (photo: Daniel Mennerich, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). 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. Each of the works is signed, indicating that the production of such works was regarded as a highly specialized skill rather than a trade. But the pigments were cooked in such a way as to cause them to blend in a manner that could be successfully applied to the surface. 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. 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. Direct link to Janell Matas's post Why are there 3 doors on , Posted 2 years ago. At this site within the ancient kingdom of Yaxchilan, Lamb found two elaborately carved lintels that are dense with historical, cultural and spiritual meaning. Chakalte' Guatemalan or Mexican. 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. Ceremonial blades made of flint (1978.412.195) or chert served as royal scepters. tabiiy yuxul mo chaak aj hixiil? Plate I Stone Lintel from Maya Temple at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, About A.D. 750. True Working limestone or volcanic tuff with stone tools, sculptors showed realistic portraits of divine lords, courtly ladies, captives, and deities. And also liked to indulge in himself the fun of roughing it, which mustve been every scouts dream. And so all of this tells us that they were very much concerned with the physical placement of these carvings, but also how humans would interact with them. HOUSTON: There are many, many different Mayan groups, thirty different languages or more, with varied histories. Later sculpture from the Maya area follows radically different conventions. 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. Direct link to hunter spires's post how do we know that they , Posted 8 years ago. 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. The beam depicts a female wearing an elaborately woven textile dress, a quetzal-feather headdress, and fine jade regalia. 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. Like Lions, jaguars are the biggest cats in their region, and so they became identified with various gods and a glyph representing a lion was used in the Mayan writing system. It speaks about cataclysmic storms, almost a hurricane, artesian wells that are spurting like volcanoes, and so forth. CUNO: Now, give us an outline of the history of the ancient Maya. Lady Xoc is shown here performing an important royal rite of blood letting. 20002023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. Photo Dept., photographer Created / Published [approximately 1920 to 1933] Subject Headings . And I even use this analogy of trying to date a boat simply by when a champagne bottle was broken on its prow at the time of launching. Not necessarily of royal commissions, but ones that are undertaken by local nobility. Coe, Michael D., and Stephen D. Houston. 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. Hes probably looking for a more lucrative position here in this kingdom. And we know that Lamb heard about this ruin when he was in the jungle beginning this filming project. HOUSTON: Bonampak is a high-ranking city. But really, what were talking about here are the lintels. So its part of the same world. Hes also quite interesting, in that he comes from that grand tradition of the English gentleman amateur, in that he had no training in archaeology, although he was trained in conservation. This architectural system and building method has been co. RM DYEKET - Lintel from Yaxchilan 690 A.D. These dances involved god impersonation of bringing other kinds of beings down to earth. Also located within the Central Acropolis near Structure 23, Structure 33 (dedicated around 756 C.E.) So what were doing in the Getty book is we are probing what were calling the afterlife of these carvings, as well, after theyre removed from this home. 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. Look for new episodes of Art and Ideas every other Wednesday, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms. Theyre almost communicating the idea that the writing is bejeweled in some ways. 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. 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 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. 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. A miraculously preserved kneeling dwarf (1979.206.1063) would likely have held a plaque covered in tiles of obsidian or pyrite that reflected light upon the ruler gazing at it. And h Music Credits HOUSTON: This lintel was first seen by an adventurer named Dana Lamb. But because he had collected so much information, he continues to loom quite large, in a positive way, in my subject. But also, as with the ruler and the magnate above, theyre identifiable in the writing, in the text nearby, as flesh-and-blood real underlings of the time. How did they know how to translate mayan glyphs? Remember that the main figure is impersonating the sun god. Bird Jaguar was Yaxchiln's most prolific builder and at least a dozen major structures were initiated or remodelled during his reign. ", TAB-ya yu-xu-lu MO-CHAK-ki a-HIX?-la Not a conventional way of getting from one place to the other. The lintels are a little bit complicated in another way, in that of course, they are difficult to look at, in that once you get into one of these, or pass through a narrow doorway in a Maya building, you have to arch your back and bend your neck. Review the vocabulary list for "Uncle Marcos". That is, the reception is, in itself, a fascinating part of the process of their emplacement on this landscape. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and. [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. The original interpretation of the studded rope was that there were thorns attached, but this new evidence in context has caused the interpretation to shift. Blood scrolls can be seen on her face. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. Why did the looting take place? u baah ti chabil ix chakan xook Ix Kabal Xook ix kalomte These lintels are considered by some to be the pinnacle of Mayan art. CUNO: This episode was produced by Zoe Goldman and Karen Fritsche, with audio production by Gideon Brower and mixing by Myke Dodge Weiskopf. It mustve been an exceedingly uncomfortable hike. Were they inscribed into the lintels or something? Lintel 26 was discovered in 1897 by Teobert Maler. Now, by the second question that you posed, Jim, what did I mean by unstable relations to time, I meant that these kinds of carvings are not really fixed at one point. Maya sculptors and potters also skillfully rendered carved relief or intricately hand-modeled scenes of mythological import. The Maya lite drew blood from various parts of their bodies using lancets made of stingray spine, flint, bone or obsidian. A lintel may support the chimney above a fireplace, or span the distance of a path or road, forming a stone lintel bridge. Rome? Lintel 24 was found in its original context alongside Lintels 25 and 26 in Structure 23 of Yaxchilan. Is it just the appearance, that it seemed to be so much similar one to another? Preceding prehistoric and subsequent Indian Buddhist temples were wooden buildings with structural load-bearing wood lintels across openings. 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. And this is something weve known about for some time, but its only recently being documented to a fuller extent. What do you mean by that? The headdress also contains knotted cloth and vegetal elements, as well as shorter, spotted feathers. They tend to celebrate the completion of important periods of times. Discovered in association with the female burial attributed to Lady Xoc were 146 prismatic obsidian blades, each with two lateral notches on the edges. 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. 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. The first two glyphs in the text at the top of the lintel indicate the event and the date on which it took place, October24, 709 C.E. CUNO: Now, when and under what circumstances was this particular carved lintel found? Now, on the carvings that we studied, the blue rims of the glyphs are probably referring to the idea of preciousness. Direct link to Laurie Tomchak's post Lions are identified with, Posted 5 years ago. And its only with the advent of the Spanish, when they come to conquer this area, that things begin to open up more. [2] We are able to study the detail of Mayan weaving as depicted in these carvings, and see the pearls woven into the fabric. He ascended to power in AD 681 and died in AD 742. But why focus on Lady Xook rather than Shield Jaguar II exclusively? We have the ruler himself, the king of Yaxchilan, who is embodying the sun; the magnate, whos seated by him, is representing the night and a time when maize grows. His undergraduate degree was in physics, of all things. Scrolls of blood can be seen around her mouth. But the final thing I would say about this trajectory, Jim, that I think is worth mentioning, is that a stunning feature, even today, of all of these descendant Mayan peoples, these Mayan speakers, is that they have this kind of sustained cultural or ritual orientation that demonstrates just astonishing continuity over time. The others are in very, very similar style. 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. And so by walking around it, youre, in some ways, participating in whatever kinetic activity that involved. They obviously, from an abundance of evidence, injected a certain life and vitality into their carving. Unfortunately, like many Maya ruins, the site has since been looted, and retracing the original locations of the displaced works is challenging. This limestone lintel, considered one of the masterpieces of Maya art, is one of a series of three panels from Structure 23 at Yaxchiln, where it was set above the left (south-east) doorway. 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 this is a courtly society; its focused on ancient kings, their courtiers, their immediate families. And what they tell us is that these carvings were made by an identifiable, superlative sculptor whose name we know and can decipher. So he mustve been very concerned with being out in the forest, with being prepared for every possible contingency. To log in and use all the features of Khan Academy, please enable JavaScript in your browser. Direct link to Emma.Horsefan.2004's post maby it was to show the d, Posted 6 years ago. 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. Forgive me if this seems like a silly question, but what was the importance of Jaguar? In worldwide architecture of different eras and many cultures, a lintel has been an element of post and lintel construction. And so that was extremely distressing for the field. The Maya. And he trekked to the site with locals. 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. It was a significant Maya center during the Classic period (250-900 C.E.) Lady Xook (detail), Lintel 25, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum). Direct link to Sophia McManus's post In the section Lintels 2, Posted 5 years ago. 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. HOUSTON: I think the way to look at this civilization is, again, to mostly pay attention to this Classic period that is more or less the first millennium AD. On Lintel 25 (above), the effects of bloodletting are on display. Bloodletting was also an act related to rebirth and rejuvenation. The ruler was believed to be a descendent of the gods, and the act of bloodletting was of critical importance in maintaining their power and order in the community. Sculptures made of jade range from deity figures (1979.206.1069) made for cached offerings to amulets (02.18.309) and beads to be worn by rulers and deposited in their funerary chambers to be taken with them to the afterlife. 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. 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. Some of the most famous lintels are those on Structure 23a yotoot (palace building . Often wooden sculptures are only recognized through the traces of a thin shell of stucco that once covered them before the wood rotted away. 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. 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. In classical Western architecture and construction methods, by Merriam-Webster definition, a lintel is a load-bearing member and is placed over an entranceway. And by explore, I meant someone who was not burdened by the need to stay at one site, but he visited hundreds, if not a thousand Maya ruins, doing maps and also recording inscriptions. This is a place and a general area with fierce sunlight at certain times of the year, and at other moments, that is very much muted by cloudy conditions. Incense burners depicting the sun and rain gods (1978.412.99) were deployed in intimate rituals in palaces, temples, and caves, to honor the ancestors (1999.484.1a, b; 1982.394a, b) and summon benevolent beings. CUNO: How do they relate to painted vases of the same period, the same area? The most prominent of these is the equestrian warrior, who is depicted frontally sitting regally on a diminutive horse. 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. In the Lintel 23, Communication with Ancestors, Blood Sacrifices and preparing the King for Battle is seen performing by Lady Xoc in the presence of the King Jaguar. Naming someone for a Jaguar would be a little like how in Catholic countries people were named using the Saints' Days Calendar. was first hung. It makes them tremendously exciting to study. 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. Or at least it was the claim of that dynasty. And then the final thing to remember about all of these carvings is that theyre interacting with changing meteorological circumstances. The charcoal for the barbecue was supplied by the park rangers. In the ninth and tenth centuries, monumental sculpture adorned palaces in Campeche and Yucatan, sometimes marking the buildings as animate mountains. HOUSTON: Well, we have a few examples of reliefs that have essentially transferred designs from pots. Modern day lintels are made using . And in this is limestone, which the carvings made out of. "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. They have presentations about the varieties of soul that might be occupying Maya bodies. And ultimately, should it be feasible, I think theres an interest, potentially, in repatriation by some process, legal or otherwise. Olowe created this veranda post, one of several, for the exterior courtyard of a Yoruba palace. But it really is a time with a profoundly different constitution of society, and suddenly things become much more opaque to us. Direct link to Cassandra Bristol's post From what materials were , Posted a year ago. It is possible that this is Bird Jaguar IV. What effect it might have on the physical condition of the limestone of which the Mayan stones are primarily made. 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. Does lintel 26 depict the same thing? Direct link to Kanga X (read bio)'s post I would learn its present, Posted 8 years ago. And in its eyes, looking down at anybody glimpsing and glancing up at the lintel, are the names and titles of the carver. And because of documents that Lamb left behind, we have a great deal of information about what Lamb did when he got to this place. The term iconic refers to something that has become famous and has widely recognizable. And indeed, for much of its existence, it was a dependency of Yaxchilan, which was the superordinate, dominant kingdom in this area. Due to the association with Lady Xocs burial in Room 2, these have been interpreted as being depicted on Lintel 24. Lady Xoc is one of the most prominent and probably politically powerful women in the Maya civilization. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the maya ruler shield jaguar and his wife lady xoc ( 4.6.6)? Such objects had and continue to hold great historical, aesthetic, and spiritual significance for Maya people and descendants. The sculpture occupies almost the . And ultimately, we want to be able to extract information about the political, the cultural, and the aesthetic circumstances of its creation. From what materials were the lintels/structures made? Some of these stairways also show ball playing. HOUSTON: They were a couple from California who first undertook, in the thirties, a canoe trip from their state all the way down to Panama. Theyre like Swiss cheese, Jim. Carved from one piece of wood, the composition combines two classic Yoruba icons of power and leadership. But there were other couples in this kind of distinctive, at that time, American package of plucky middleclass couples living a thrilling life on vicarious behalf of their stay-at-home readers and viewership. 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. 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. In the first millennium B.C., Maya artists began to sculpt in stone, stucco, wood, bone, shell, and fired clay. Doyle, James. HOUSTON: The area is well endowed with carvings. To log in and use all the features of Khan Academy, please enable JavaScript in your browser. There are chocolate recipes that are specifying, to a very great degree, what people might be quaffing in some of these festivities that we know that they celebrated. (5 Eb, 15 Mak in the maya calendar). The sculpture Chibinda Ilunga, made by the Chokwe people of Central Africa, depicts a king as a. Here are the lintels. [ 1 ] but really, what were talking here... 1920 to 1933 ] Subject Headings supplied by the park rangers Jaguar would be quite difficult print. 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