A Maya incised travertine vessel from Guatemala, depicting dueling captives stabbing each other with sharpened femurs, and 2 sumptuously-attired lords watching the fight, and holding more sharpened femurs at the ready should the combatants need them. 600-900 CE [2745×3555]
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Now housed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
[https://collections.lacma.org/node/1903372](https://collections.lacma.org/node/1903372)
[http://www.famsi.org/research/kerr/articles/incised/index.html](http://www.famsi.org/research/kerr/articles/incised/index.html)
Well at least the lords are helpful
I’m not one to walk around with guns or knives on my person – it’s very illegal here – But goddamn if I wouldn’t like me a sharpened femur, open carry.
It’s about sending a message.
What an incredible object! Very beautiful.
Birdperson?
The text on the top of the cup, according to the FAMSI article:
“it is the drinking-cup of the dirty-ballplayer, [who is] the last man of the great-ballplayer and son of the earthy-ballplayer”.