A rare maya jade ornament early classic, ca. A.D. 250-450 the small pendant carved with the ominous stylized face of a deity, once associated with the Decapitator god, with distinctive feathered eyelids, and barbels curling from the openwork mouth similar to the Gods GI and GIII of the Palenque Triad, with a short ruffled bib, and forehead adorned with medallions of a four-part flower composed of shells, the reverse finely carved with six glyphs, now interpreted to refer to this jade as the ornament of a god, with the deity's names and titles, including reference to 'wind' and the 'Venus'; pierced five times along the lower perimeter and laterally through the head; in mottled bright and white, areas with cinnabar. height 2 in. 5 cm
A rare maya jade ornament early classic, ca. A.D. 250-450 the small pendant carved with the ominous stylized face of a deity, once associated with the Decapitator god, with distinctive feathered eyelids, and barbels curling from the openwork mouth similar to the Gods GI and GIII of the Palenque Triad, with a short ruffled bib, and forehead adorned with medallions of a four-part flower composed of shells, the reverse finely carved with six glyphs, now interpreted to refer to this jade as the ornament of a god, with the deity's names and titles, including reference to 'wind' and the 'Venus'; pierced five times along the lower perimeter and laterally through the head; in mottled bright and white, areas with cinnabar. height 2 in. 5 cm
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