caa a22 4500 386318026 CHVBK 20180307111614.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00073634 doi S0003598X00073634 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00073634 Stuart David Center for Maya Research, PO Box 65760, Washington, DC 20035-5760, USA The Río Azul cacao pot: epigraphic observations on the function of a Maya ceramic vessel [Elektronische Daten] [David Stuart] Despite decades of extensive study of ancient Maya ceramics, a few basic questions still vex the archaeologist: What were the actual uses of the distinct types of Maya vessels? How can we determine the precise function of some pottery forms? How can we understand the classification the Maya themselves had for their pots? This brief note, using a recently-discovered vessel from Río Azul, Guatemala, as an illustration, will show that such questions can be addressed using combined data from different analytical approaches. Here I also wish to emphasize the notion that some of the most important sources of information on these issues are the hieroglyphic texts painted or carved on numerous Maya ceramics. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988 Antiquity Cambridge University Press 62/234(1988-03), 153-157 0003-598X 62:234<153 1988 62 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00073634 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00073634 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Stuart David Center for Maya Research, PO Box 65760, Washington, DC 20035-5760, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 62/234(1988-03), 153-157 0003-598X 62:234<153 1988 62 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge