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"tombstone": "Head of a Young Noble, 746. Honduras, Cop\u00e1n, 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",
"current_location": "233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region",
"title": "Head of a Young Noble",
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"id": 301477,
"title": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.",
"description": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).",
"opening_date": "1958-03-04T05:00:00"
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"description": "This young noble may be a political official of 8th-century Cop\u00e1n, 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 Cop\u00e1n ruler and his advisors during a crisis that rocked the city\u2019s ruling dynasty. On the structure\u2019s 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 Cop\u00e1n\u2019s domain. The figures may represent these towns\u2019 advisors to the king, whose image crowned the structure.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \"Mayan Head.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 4 (April 1954): 63-64.",
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"citation": "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",
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"citation": "Mayer, Karl Herbert. Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance, Supplement 1. Berlin: Verlag von Flemming, 1987.",
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"citation": "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",
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"citation": "Coe, Michael, \u201cFrom Huaquero to Connoisseur: The Early Market in Pre-Columbian Art.\u201d In Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past : A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 6th and 7th October 1990. Elizabeth Hill Boone, ed. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1993.",
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