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Late Preclassic Inscription Documentation Project

Results Achieved to Date

Included in this report are final drawings of the following early texts (abbreviations are provided, see Addendum):

  1. Dumbarton Oaks jade pectoral (Figure 10, DO pectoral).
  2. Dumbarton Oaks jadeite celt (Figure 11, DO celt).
  3. Jade Museum jade spoon (Figure 12, JM spoon).
  4. Jade Museum jade plaque No. 4444 (Figure 13, INS 4444).
  5. Jade Museum jade plaque No. 4443 (Figure 14, INS 4443).
  6. Jade Museum jade plaque No. 4442 (Figure 15, INS 4442).
  7. Jade Museum jade plaque No. 4441 (Figure 16, INS 4441).
  8. Jade Museum jade plaque No. 4440 (Figure 17, INS 4440).
  9. Jade Museum jade plaque No. 2007 (Figure 18, INS 2007).
  10. Jade Museum jade plaque No. 2006 (Figure 19, INS 2006).
  11. Jade Museum slate disk No. 6528 (Figure 20, INS 6528).
  12. Jade Museum jade plaque No. 4563 (Figure 21).
  13. La Fortuna slate disk (Figure 22, LF disk).
  14. Peabody Museum at Yale jaguar figurine (Figure 23, PMY jaguar).
  15. Cenote tubular jade bead (Figure 24, CNT 6125).
  16. Cenote tubular jade bead (Figure 25, CNT 22001).
  17. The lower glyphic panel of Hauberg Stela (Figure 26, Figure 27, Figure 28, and Figure 29, HBG stela).
  18. The lower glyphic panel of Kaminaljuyú Stela 10 (Figure 30, KJ Stela 10).
  19. Brooklyn Museum of Art jade mask (Figure 4, BMA mask).

For some drawings I have not had the benefit of first-hand observations yet, but I have used published high-resolution photographs to improve upon previously published drawings. The following drawings are thus only preliminary:

  1. Hatzcap Ceel jade axe (Figure 31, HTZ axe).
  2. Kendal jade axe (Figure 32, KND axe).
  3. An unprovenanced jade clamshell (Figure 33, UNP clamshell, K763).
  4. The Pomona jade earflare (Figure 34a, and Figure 34b, PMA flare).
  5. The British Museum pectoral (Figure 35, BM pectoral).
  6. The Cleveland Museum jade plaque (Figure 36, CM plaque).
  7. A jade plaque reportedly from Nosara, Nicoya, Costa Rica (Figure 37) published in Stone (1968:figura 9).
  8. An unprovenanced jade plaque reportedly from Costa Rica (Figure 38) published in Stone (1977:68, figure 78c).

My dissertation research focuses on the following four inscribed artifacts: DO pectoral, JM spoon, PMY jaguar, and UNP clamshell. I discuss other texts, but in less detail. Next I discuss the differences between my drawings of these texts and the previously published drawings.

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