{"data": {"id": 138393, "accession_number": "1962.32", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Panel with Royal Woman, c. 795. Sculpted by K\u2019in Lakam Chahk, and Jun Nat Omootz. Limestone; overall: 60.4 x 69.8 cm (23 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1962.32", "current_location": "233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region", "title": "Panel with Royal Woman", "creation_date": "c. 795", "creation_date_earliest": 750, "creation_date_latest": 850, "artists_tags": ["Latine and Hispanic Artists"], "culture": ["Guatemala or Mexico, Usumacinta River region, Maya style"], "technique": "limestone", "support_materials": [], "department": "Art of the Americas", "collection": "AA - Mesoamerica", "type": "Sculpture", "measurements": "Overall: 60.4 x 69.8 cm (23 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.604, "height_inch": 23, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.698, "width_inch": 27, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": null, "inscription_translation": "K\u2019in Lakam Chahk and Jun Nat Omootz", "inscription_remark": "Sculptors signature", "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 302276, "title": "Year in Review - 1962", "description": "<i>Year in Review - 1962</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).", "opening_date": "1962-10-24T04:00:00"}, {"id": 309959, "title": "The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art", "description": "<i>The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art</i>. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (May 17-August 24, 1986); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 8-December 14, 1986).", "opening_date": "1986-05-17T04:00:00"}, {"id": 221002, "title": "Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World", "description": "<i>Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World</i>. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada (organizer) (November 19, 2011-April 9, 2012); Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada (May 17-October 28, 2012).", "opening_date": "2011-11-19T00:00:00"}, {"id": 439182, "title": "Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art", "description": "<i>Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art</i>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (November 14, 2022-April 2, 2023); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (May 7-September 3, 2023).", "opening_date": "2022-11-14T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Stolper Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1962", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1962-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This panel, likely from a palace interior, depicts a royal Maya woman.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In this panel, probably from a palace interior, the woman\u2019s static posture contrasts with the liveliness of the creature she holds, a god of royalty with a serpent leg and a grotesque head with a smoking torch on its brow. (The same deity is shown in the nearby Eccentric Flint.) Other signs of high rank are her jade jewelry and costume, its beauty suggesting that textiles and featherwork were great Maya arts, now lost to a tropical climate. The hieroglyphics refer to an undefined ritual that the woman completed in 795.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60760303"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1962.32-panel-with-royal-wom"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Palenque Round Table, Merle Greene Robertson, and Elizabeth P. Benson. Fourth Palenque Round Table, 1980: <em>Proceedings of the Cuarta Mesa Redonda De Palenque, June 8-14, 1980. </em>San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1985.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueolo\u0301gicas en Guatemala, Juan Pedro Laporte, He\u0301ctor L. Escobedo, and Sandra Villagra\u0301n de Brady. VI <em>Simposio de investigaciones arqueolo\u0301gicas en Guatemala, 1992:</em> Museo Nacional de Arqueologi\u0301a y Etnologi\u0301a. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, 1993.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"Year in Review 1962.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 49, no. 9 (1962)", "page_number": "p. 215, 223", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151915"}, {"citation": "Hawley, Henry H. \"A Maya Relief.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 50, no. 3 (1963).", "page_number": "p. 50", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151941"}, {"citation": "Hawley, Henry. \"Pre-Columbian Art at Cleveland.\" Apollo: <em>A Journal for the Arts</em>, LXXVIII , (December, 1963).", "page_number": "pp. 489-493", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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Los Angeles, Calif., USA: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.", "page_number": "fig. 5", "url": null}, {"citation": "Montgomery, John Ellis. <em>Sculptors of the Realm: Classic Maya Artists' Signatures and Sculptural Style During the Reign of Piedras Negras Ruler 7</em>. 1995.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Jennings, Justin, Martha Cuevas Garci\u0301a, and Roberto Lo\u0301pez Bravo. <em>Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World.</em> Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum Press, 2011.", "page_number": "p. 48", "url": null}, {"citation": "Jackson, Sarah E. <em>Politics of the Maya Court: Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period. </em>Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.", "page_number": "p. 43, fig. 19", "url": null}, {"citation": "Ju\u00e1rez, Garcia and Sara Isabel, <em>La historia de Piedras Negras a trav\u00e9s de sus inscripciones jerogl\u00edficas: Auge y ocaso del linaje de las tortugas</em>. Tesis (licenciado en historia), Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de Mexico (2015).", "page_number": "discussed on various pages", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Chinchilla Mazariegos, Oswaldo Fernando, James A. Doyle, Joanne Pillsbury, Stephen D. Houston, Daniel Salazar Lama, Iyaxel Cojti\u0301 Ren, and Caitlin Earley. <em>Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art</em>. 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