Figural Urn of a Masked Deity
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...
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17249
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sculpture
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normalized
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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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CC0
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en
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1
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import
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Zapotec
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_2006.15.8_3Qtr_DD_T07.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_2006.15.8_3Qtr_DD_T07.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_2006.15.8_3Qtr_DD_T07.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/2006.15.8 |
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