Figural Urn of a Masked Deity

500-200 BC (Monte Albán I (?)) 9 3/8 in. (23.81 cm) Citation Source image

This funerary urn presents one of the most important Zapotec deities, Cociyo, the Lightning/Storm God. Such urns were placed in elaborate tombs, often in groups. Zapotec tombs were regularly re-entered for ancestor veneration, when incense may have been burned in the urns. As...

Sculpture

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17249
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sculpture
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David Bramhall, since 1980s, by purchase (?); Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation [John Stokes as agent], June 10, 2005, by purchase [Arte Primitivo, New York, as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 2007, by gift.
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en
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Zapotec
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