• Maya conch shell, 761

Date:
  • 761.
Type:
  • Texts
Abstract:
  • This conch shell, thought to come from the Yucatan, still contains red pigment from its use as the ink pot of a Maya calligrapher. The red letter hieroglyphs engraved into the body of the shell contain a date equivalent to March 17, 761 and the name of the Royal Calligrapher, "He of the Holy Books." This is the earliest dated American manuscript in the Princeton University Library.
Title sort:
  • Maya conch shell, 761.
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Subject:
  • Maya language—Texts
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/hh63sz535
Format:
  • Visual material
Extent:
  • 1 item ; 12 x 29 x 7 cm.
Call number:
  • C0940 (Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 11)
  • Electronic Resource
Spatial:
  • Mexico
Relation:
  • Princeton Mesoamerican collection, [600s]-[1800s]
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Frank E. Taplin, Class of 1937 and Mrs. Taplin.
Location:
  • HSVM C0940 (Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 11)
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 C0940 (Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 11)
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
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