id: 143381 accession number: 1967.29 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.29 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:19.746000 Front Face of a Stela (Free-standing Stone with Relief), 692. Mesoamerica, Guatemala, Department of the Petén, El Perú (also known as Waka'), Maya (250-900), Classic period (200-1000). Limestone; overall: 274.4 x 182.3 cm (108 1/16 x 71 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1967.29 title: Front Face of a Stela (Free-standing Stone with Relief) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 692 creation date earliest: 692 creation date latest: 692 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Mesoamerica, Guatemala, Department of the Petén, El Perú (also known as Waka'), Maya (250-900), Classic period (200-1000) technique: limestone department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: Guatemala, Department of the Petén, El Perú (also known as Waka') catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 274.4 x 182.3 cm (108 1/16 x 71 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (John A. Stokes, Jr., New York, NY, 1967, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1967- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (1967) page number: pp. 338, 342 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152183 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. 293 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n317 Mesa Redonda de Palenque, and Merle Greene Robertson. Primera, Mesa Redonda De Palenque. Pebble Beach, Calif: Robert Louis Stevenson School, Pre Columbian Art Research, 1974. page number: p. 151 url: Robicsek, Francis. A Study in Maya Art and History: The Mat Symbol. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1975. page number: p. 227 url: Marcus, Joyce. Emblem and State in the Classic Maya Lowlands: An Epigraphic Approach to Territorial Organization. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, 1976. page number: url: 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 Mayer, Karl Herbert. Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance in the United States. Ramona, Calif: Acoma Books, 1980. page number: p. 22, pl. 31 url: Robicsek, Francis, Donald M. Hales, and Michael D. Coe. The Maya Book of the Dead: The Ceramic Codex : the Corpus of Codex Style Ceramics of the Late Classic Period. 1981. page number: p. 231, fig. 72 url: Palenque Round Table, Merle Greene Robertson, and Elizabeth P. Benson. Fourth Palenque Round Table, 1980: Proceedings of the Cuarta Mesa Redonda De Palenque, June 8-14, 1980. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1985. page number: pp. 141-153, fig. 22 url: "Cleveland-Fort Worth: Zwei Maya-Stelen Identifiziert." Mexicon: aktuelle Informationen und Studien zu Mesoamerika. 7 (2) (March 1985). page number: pp. 18-20, abb. 1-2 url: Piña Chan, Román. Cultura y ciudades mayas de Campeche: Calakmul, Edzná, Becán, Xpuhil, Jaina, Hochob, Chicanná, Dzibilnocac, Hormiguero, Río Bec, El Tigre. [México, D.F.]: [Editora del Sureste], 1985. page number: p. 34 url: Hellmuth, Nicholas M. Monster und Menschen in der Maya-Kunst: eine Ikonographie der alten Religionen Mexikos und Guatemalas. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1987. page number: p. 134 url: Graham, Ian. 1988. "Homeless hieroglyphs". Antiquity. 62 (234) page number: pp. 122-126 url: Dutting, Dieter and Matthias Schram. "The Sidereal Period of the Moon in Maya Calendrical Astronomy." Tribus 37 (1988). page number: pp. 140-141 url: Marcus, Joyce. Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. page number: pp. 250-255, fig. 8.24 url: Perez, Juan Carlos, Griselda Perez, David Freidel and Olivia Navarro-Farr. "Wakka', el Reino del Ciempies: La Reina K'abel y su Historia Recien Descubierta." Anales del Museo de America XXIII 1993. page number: pp. 7-31, fig. 3b url: Joyce, Rosemary A., and Susan A. M. Shumaker. Encounters with the Americas. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1995. page number: p. 55 url: Coggins, Clemency Chase. "Man, Woman, and Dwarf." Memorias del Primer Congreso Internacional de Mayistas. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1995. page number: url: Wanyerka, Phil. "A Fresh Look at a Maya Masterpiece." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 1 (1996) page number: pp. 72-93 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079682 Arellano, Alfonso. The Mayas of the Classical Period. Woodbridge: Jaca Books, 1999. page number: p. 39 url: Miller, Mary Ellen. Maya Art and Architecture. London: Thames & Hudson, 1999. page number: pp. 108-109 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: pp. 95-96 url: Laporte Molina, Juan Pedro, and Ana Claudia Monzón de Suasnávar. XIV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2002. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, 2003. page number: fig. 7 url: Escobedo, Héctor L., and David A. Freidel. Proyecto arqueológico el Perú-waka': informe no. 2, temporada 2004. Guatemala: [publisher not identified], 2005. page number: fig. 7 url: Freidel, David, Héctor Escobedo, David Lee, Stanley Guenter y Juan Carlos Meléndez, El Perú y la ruta terrestre de la Dinastía Kan hacia el Altiplano. En XX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2006, Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala (versión digital) 2007. page number: pp. 59-76 url: Hardman, Chris. "Woman Power in the Maya World" Archaeology (June 2008). page number: p. 57 url: Reese-Taylor, Kathryn, Peter Mathews, Julia Guernsey, and Marlene Fritzler. “Warrior Queens among the Classic Maya,” in Heather Orr and Rex Koontz, eds., Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America, p. 39-72. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, UCLA, 2009 page number: p. 36-72, Figure 2.19 url: Orr, Heather S., and Rex Koontz. Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America. [Los Angeles, CA]: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2009. page number: pp. 36-72, fig. 2.19 url: Stone, Andrea Joyce, and Marc Zender. Reading Maya art: a hieroglyphic guide to ancient maya painting and sculpture. 2011. page number: p. 34, fig. 5 url: Barrios, Ana García and Verónica Vázquez López ”The Weaving of Power: Women’s Clothing and Protocol in the Seventh-Century Kingdom of Kaanu’l.” Latin American Indian Literatures Journal 27 (1) 50-95 (2011). page number: illustrated Fig. 15, p. 78 (drawing) url: Stuart, David. "The Queen's Tomb at El Peru." Maya Decipherment (October 4, 2012) page number: fig. 2 url: https://decipherment.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/the-queens-tomb-at-el-peru/ Mangels, John. "College of Wooster Archaeologist Leads Discovery of Maya Queen's Tomb in Guatemala." Cleveland Plain Dealer (October 7, 2012) page number: url: https://www.cleveland.com/science/2012/10/college_of_wooster_archeologis.html Lazaro, Enrico de. "Archaeologists Discover Tomb of Maya Queen Lady K'abel in Guatemala." SciNews (October 4, 2012). page number: url: http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00632.html Barrios, Ana García and Veronica A. Vázquez López, "Moda y protocolo femenino en el reino de Kanu’l (siglo VII d.C.)" Acta Mesoamericana No. 24 (2012). page number: Fig. 20 url: Ingalls, Victoria Ann. The Quadripartite Badge: Narratives of Power and Resurrection in Maya Iconography. Orlando, Fla: University of Central Florida, 2012. page number: pp. 29, 45, 52, 93 (drawing) url: Zorich, Zach. "Uncovering a Maya Warrior Queen." Archaeology 66 (3) 2013. page number: p. 35 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 03, May/June 2013 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-03/page/10 Eichenseher, T. "The Power and Glory of the Maya Queens." DISCOVER -NEW YORK- 35, no. 2 (2014): 52-57. page number: Reproduced: p. 55 url: Navarro-Farr, Olivia C., and Michelle E. Rich. Archaeology at El Perú Waka': Ancient Maya Performances of Ritual, Memory, and Power. 2014. page number: figs. 3.3, 9.3 url: Springer, Samantha and Susan E. Bergh. "Remounting a Maya Monument." Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine (July/August 2014). page number: pp. 22-23 url: Iannone, Gyles, Brett A. Houk, and Sonja A. Schwake. Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings. 2016. page number: fig. 11.4 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 28 url: Olivia Navarro-Farr, El Perú-Waka’ Burial 61 and the Front Face of a Stela, video produced by the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: url: https://youtu.be/9S7N83sN1pQ Vázquez López, Verónica Amellali. “Pact and Marriage: Sociopolitical Strategies of the Kanu’l Dynasty and its Allies during the Late Classic Period.” Contributions in New World Archaeology Vol. 11, 2017. page number: p. 9-48, fig. 1 (black-and-white photo), fig. 3d (drawing), fig. 5a (drawing) url: Vázquez López, Verónica A. and Felix Kupprat. “Pertenencia y transmisión de nombres entre los Kanu’l en el Clásico Tardío/Use and Transmission of Names among the Kanu’l during the Late Classic Period.” Estudios de Cultura Maya 51 (2018) page number: 75-110, fig. 3 (drawing) url: López Oliva, Macarena Soledad. Las personificaciones (?UB'AAHIL?A?N) de seres sobrenaturales entre los mayas de tierras bajas del clásico. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2018. page number: pp. 150-158, fig. III.32 url: https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/56284/ López Oliva, Macarena Soledad, Las Personificaciones (?ub’aahil ?a?n) de Seres Sobrenaturales entre los Mayas de Tierras Bajas del Clássico. Ph.D. dissertation, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2018. page number: pp. 152—168 url: Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, Mary Kate Kelly, Michelle Rich, and Griselda Pérez Robles. "Expanding the canon: Lady K’abel the Ix Kaloomte’ and the political narratives of classic Maya Queens." Feminist Anthropology 1: (2020). page number: pp. 38-55, fig. 3 url: Navarro-Farr, Olivia C. “Forest of Queens: The Legacy of Royal Calakmul Women at El Perú-Waka’s Central Civic-Ceremonial Temple.” In Travis W. Stanton and M. Kathryn Brown, eds., A Forest of History: The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship”, Denver: University of Colorado Press, 2020. page number: pp. 67-87 url: Houston, Stephen D., Stephen D. Houston, and Michael D. Coe. A Maya Universe in Stone. 2021. page number: p. 9, fig. 2B url: Navarro-Farr, Olivia C., “Burial 61 at El Perú-Waka’s Structure M13-3.” Latin American Antiquity 32 (1) (2021). page number: pp. 188-200, illustrated Fig. 2, p. 190. url: Alex, Bridget. “Snake Queens.” Archaeology January/February 2023. page number: pp. 48-55. Reproduced p. 49 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.29/1967.29_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.29/1967.29_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.29/1967.29_full.tif