id: 130390 accession number: 1953.154 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.154 updated: 2023-08-25 11:18:35.304000 Head of a Young Noble, 746. Honduras, Copán, Structure 10L-22A, Maya style (250-900). Stone; overall: 53.3 x 35.6 x 52.1 cm (21 x 14 x 20 1/2 in.); former: 52.8 x 35.3 cm (20 13/16 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.154 title: Head of a Young Noble title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 746 creation date earliest: 746 creation date latest: 746 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: Honduras, Copán, Structure 10L-22A, Maya style (250-900) technique: stone department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 53.3 x 35.6 x 52.1 cm (21 x 14 x 20 1/2 in.); Former: 52.8 x 35.3 cm (20 13/16 x 13 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 4-April 6, 1958. "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr." cat. no. 170. * Cleveland, OH:The Cleveland Museum of Art; 1986. Fort Worth, TX: The Kimbell Museum of Art; 1986."The Blood of Kings: A New interpretation of Maya Art." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This young noble may be a political official of 8th-century Copán, an important site in eastern Maya territory. The noble, who embodies the Maya ideal of masculine beauty, wears circular ear ornaments and a headband, above which the tied hair rises. The meaning of the disembodied hand that cups the chin is debated. The head, collected by Harvard archaeologists in the 1890s, comes from the facade of a building may have been used as a council house by a Copán ruler and his advisors during a crisis that rocked the city’s ruling dynasty. On the structure’s upper level, above woven mat signs that symbolized political authority, eight figures were enthroned in T-shaped recesses. This head is from one of these figures. Beneath each recess was a hieroglyph thought to name an important town (or family) within Copán’s domain. The figures may represent these towns’ advisors to the king, whose image crowned the structure. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. "Mayan Head." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 4 (April 1954): 63-64. page number: Mentioned: P. 63-64 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141954 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 364 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n69 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 292 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n316 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 292 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n316 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 396 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n416 Schele, Linda, Mary Ellen Miller, and Justin Kerr. The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art. New York: G. Braziller, 1986.
Published as: Head of the God of the Number Zero page number: Mentioned: P. 281; reproduced: P. 293, pl. 110 url: Mayer, Karl Herbert. Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance, Supplement 1. Berlin: Verlag von Flemming, 1987. page number: Mentioned: P. 19-20, no. 18; Reproduced: pl. 80 url: Young-Sanchez, Margaret. "Tenoned Head." In Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 44. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art,1991.
Published as: Tenoned Head page number: Mentioned and reproduced: No. 44 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.154/1953.154_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.154/1953.154_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.154/1953.154_full.tif