Tomb (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features

A prepared, architecturally distinctive structure, normally sub-surface, often containing multiple interments. Use for features such as shaft tombs.

126-150 (297 Records)

Color Plate 11 (2008)
IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

Inscription on the lid of the jar from Burial 116.


Color Plate 12 (2008)
IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

Minor sculpture in jade of a jaguar from Burial 196.


Color Plate 13 (2008)
IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

Jaguar minor sculpture in situ in Burial 196. The worked Spondylus valve and jade beads are ones of several distributed along the body.


Color Plate 14 (2008)
IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

Jade minor sculpture of a seated man from Burial 116.


Color Plate 15 (2008)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

View of some of the contents of Burial 10.


Color Plate 16 (2008)
IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

Large jade earflares and beads from chamber burials.


Color Plate 17 (2008)
IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

Jade pendants from chamber burials and a temple cache. From left, Burial 10, Cache 140A, Burial 23, Burial 10. Burial 10, and at lower right, Burial 24.


Color Plate 18 (2008)
IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

The backs of the jade pendants shown in 17.


Color Plate 19 (2008)
IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

Jade pendants from burials and a temple cache. Upper row, Burial 10, Cache 140A, lower row, Burial 24.


Color Plate 2 (2008)
IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

Class 1E eccentrics of obsidian.


Color Plate 20 (2008)
IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

Jade pendant and carved beads from Burial 10.


Color Plate 21 (2008)
IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

Ear ornaments. Small flare from a burial or a cache. Right, large jade earflare shown without its throat disk, and left, large earflare of marbled dark green stone, probably unfinished, both from Burial 10.


Color Plate 22 (2008)
IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

Head of Burial 196 at excavation with an in situ diadem of jade disks, composite ear ornaments, necklace of long, carved beads, and scattered jade pebble beads. The reddish tinge is from cinnabar pigment.


Color Plate 23 (2008)
IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

Long, four-sided bead of jade carved with a diving figure on each face, traces of cinnabar pigment, Burial 196.


Color Plate 24 (2008)
IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

Carved jade pendant from Burial 77.


Color Plate 25 (2008)
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Celt-shaped pendant from Cache 209.


Color Plate 26 (2008)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

Serpentine mask with Spondylus shell inlays from Burial 85.


Color Plate 27 (2008)
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Carved bowl of calcite (tecalli) from Burial 196.


Color Plate 28 (2008)
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Minor sculpture of crouching figure of soft, dark green stone from Burial 167.


Color Plate 29 (2008)
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Above, perforated peccary tusk and two bone tubes. Below, eight pendants cut from white marine shell, part of a necklace found with Burial 121.


Color Plate 3 (2008)
IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

Incised obsidians.


Color Plate 30 (2008)
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Carved pendant of Spondylus shell, one of a pair, and one of a pair of Spondylus shell bead bracelets with polished bone clasps, from Burial 167.


Color Plate 31 (2008)
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Large unworked stingray spine with traces of red pigment. Two parts of a composite pendant of cut nacreous shell with a large, round pearl bead-pendant between them, from Burial 116.


Color Plate 32 (2008)
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A display of ornaments from Burial 196, Tikal Museum, 1968. From the top, jade diadem, pair of smaller composite jade ear ornaments, carved jade bead with diving figures, multi-strand necklace of pearl bead-pendants, pair of larger jade and shell composite ear ornaments, pair of bracelets of collared cylindrical jade beads.


Color Plate 33 (2008)
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Shell trumpet from Problematical Deposit 7, scallop shell perforated for suspension from Burial 10, and an unworked Spondylus shell from Burial 116.