Rituals of Maya Royal Women in Classic Period Inscriptions

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Role of Women in Mesoamerican Ritual" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Classic Maya period inscriptions provide us with extensive documentation of the rituals and ceremonies that Maya elites performed as part of their royal duties. Throughout this paper we will discuss those that were overseen by women belonging to the royal houses of the polities of the Maya lowlands, which have been recorded through the images and inscriptions on the stone monuments of that time. From the reading of the inscriptions that describe them, the role that women hold in these performances in front of the supernatural world will be analyzed, making analogies with the role that Maya women hold up until today, supported when possible by archaeological data.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Role of Women in Mesoamerican Ritual   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37670.0