Object Title
Urn
Measurements
19.8 x 12.8 x 13.1 cm
Creation Date
250-550 CE
Credit Line
Gift of Cora W. and Laurence C. Witten II
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/18321/urn-with-sun-godjaguar-god-of-the-underworld-on-lid?ctx=b0daf4bb7ec0baa4cf51326278d37c73c3783432&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years.
Provenance Information
Ex coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora (1931-2023) Witten, United States, acquired ca. 1960-1985.
Exhibition Information
Human Body: Human Spirit, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 15, 1993 - January 30, 1994
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, May 17, 1994 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - Present
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, May 17, 1994 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - Present
Publication Information
Carolyn Elaine Tate and Beatriz de la Fuente, Human Body, Human Spirit: A Portrait of Ancient Mexico (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1993), 15.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 93.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 3, figure. 1.
Karen M. O'Day, "A Study of Painted Pottery from Sitio Conte Cemetery, Panama," PhD. diss., Emory University, 2002, figure 5.27.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, "Human-Animal Imagery, Shamanic Visions, and Ancient American Aesthetics," RES (Spring 2004): 52, figure 5.
Augustin Segui, "Piernas flexionadas como jaguar," in XXXI Congresso Internacional de Americanistica: Imaginario e memoria: da representacao, ed. Edmundo Antonio Peggion et al. (Perugia:Universita degli Studi di Perugia, 2009), 233-41.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 86.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 63-64, figures 3.1 - 3.3.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 93.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 3, figure. 1.
Karen M. O'Day, "A Study of Painted Pottery from Sitio Conte Cemetery, Panama," PhD. diss., Emory University, 2002, figure 5.27.
Rebecca Stone-Miller, "Human-Animal Imagery, Shamanic Visions, and Ancient American Aesthetics," RES (Spring 2004): 52, figure 5.
Augustin Segui, "Piernas flexionadas como jaguar," in XXXI Congresso Internacional de Americanistica: Imaginario e memoria: da representacao, ed. Edmundo Antonio Peggion et al. (Perugia:Universita degli Studi di Perugia, 2009), 233-41.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 86.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 63-64, figures 3.1 - 3.3.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Gifted to museum in 1992.