Jaina Island Ceramics

Jaina style figurine of a female ballplayer maya about a d.

Jaina island ceramics.

However the jaina emblem glyph is unexpected not only because of the island s size and peripheral location but also because the glyph is known primarily from almost a dozen portable objects. It appears only once on the island itself on a fragmented stone inscription benavides castillo quoted in graña behrens 2006 110. Anthropomorphic figurine 300 850 ad from jaina island campeche 24821458620 jpg 1 555 2 332. Once more i was surrounded by the original funerary figurines.

This jaina style figurine is extremely unusual as it depicts a female ballplayer. Discs triangles substrates and 2 3 and 4 piece assemblies. Once in the museum i gazed at ornate statues masks stone heads ceramics stelae and other artifacts until i came to the jaina room. We grind ceramic materials for the telecom industry.

Jaina island s extensive burial grounds have been known since the nineteenth century but only in the 1940s were they first. A small limestone island on the yucatán peninsula s gulf coast with only a tidal inlet separating it from the mainland jaina served as an elite maya burial site and is notable for the high number of fine ceramic figurines excavated there. Jaina island is a pre columbian maya archaeological site in the present day mexican state of campeche a small limestone island on the yucatán peninsula s gulf coast with only a tidal inlet separating it from the mainland jaina served as an elite maya burial site and is notable for the high number of fine ceramic figurines excavated there. Indice mostrar the site both jaina island and.

Mayan ceramics jaina island figures among the most renowned of the myriad figurine traditions of mesoamerica is that of jaina island a residential and funerary settlement adjacent to the coast of west central campeche. The term jaina translates to temple in the water. Media in category jaina island ceramic figurines the following 108 files are in this category out of 108 total. We work with ferrite garnet dielectric load and magnetic materials.

Jaina island served as a maya burial site and it is admired worldwide for the high number of beautiful and fine mayan ceramic figurines archaeologically excavated here in more than thousand graves which are considered as the most representative pieces of mayan art and are exhibited in different museums in the world. 600 900 mexico campeche region possibly jaina island earthenware with traces of paint gift of william i.