The Anthropology Museum displays 147 pieces found in the last 30 years
The majestic masks and jewelry which accompanied the death of Maya rulers who died between 200 and 900 AD. on display yesterday in the National Anthropology Museum, the exhibition Faces of divinity, which recreates the splendor of the tombs of the Mayan culture.
are 147 pieces were found mainly in Palenque (Chiapas), Calakmul (Campeche), Dzibanché (Quintana Roo) and Oxkintok (Yucatán) during the past 30 years.
Sofia Martinez del Campo Lanz, curator of the show, described in the museum are 13 death masks of jade, eight are the faces of dignitaries from the Classic period (200-900 AD), five deities who came to school your trip, and a zoomorphic shell pectoral.
The mortuary outfit shown is composed of masks, necklaces, rings, bracelets, bibs, chest and ceremonial figures who stood in the body, and seashells. In the exhibition you can see a recreation of the tomb of Pakal, who ruled the Mayan city of Palenque, together with all his grave goods and the reproduction of his tombstone technology, which reveals in detail the iconographic images recorded on stone and its meaning.
also exhibits a funeral carpet 1.25 meters long formed by some eight thousand snails and seeds, thousand 600 years ago was part of the furnishings of a personage of high rank.
One of the masks have an identity, the seven other rulers are unknown, Martinez said.
K'inich Janaab 'Pakal, who went to Palenque, between 615 and 683 AD goberntante is the only identified with his mask of jade and jewelry.
Faces of divinity visit Italy, where it will display at the Archaeological Museum of Naples from November to January 2011, and later travel to Paris. (DPA)
The majestic masks and jewelry which accompanied the death of Maya rulers who died between 200 and 900 AD. on display yesterday in the National Anthropology Museum, the exhibition Faces of divinity, which recreates the splendor of the tombs of the Mayan culture.
are 147 pieces were found mainly in Palenque (Chiapas), Calakmul (Campeche), Dzibanché (Quintana Roo) and Oxkintok (Yucatán) during the past 30 years.
Sofia Martinez del Campo Lanz, curator of the show, described in the museum are 13 death masks of jade, eight are the faces of dignitaries from the Classic period (200-900 AD), five deities who came to school your trip, and a zoomorphic shell pectoral.
The mortuary outfit shown is composed of masks, necklaces, rings, bracelets, bibs, chest and ceremonial figures who stood in the body, and seashells. In the exhibition you can see a recreation of the tomb of Pakal, who ruled the Mayan city of Palenque, together with all his grave goods and the reproduction of his tombstone technology, which reveals in detail the iconographic images recorded on stone and its meaning.
also exhibits a funeral carpet 1.25 meters long formed by some eight thousand snails and seeds, thousand 600 years ago was part of the furnishings of a personage of high rank.
One of the masks have an identity, the seven other rulers are unknown, Martinez said.
K'inich Janaab 'Pakal, who went to Palenque, between 615 and 683 AD goberntante is the only identified with his mask of jade and jewelry.
Faces of divinity visit Italy, where it will display at the Archaeological Museum of Naples from November to January 2011, and later travel to Paris. (DPA)
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