For the last three years Nicholas Hellmuth has been working
on a new book to publish the considerable quantity of Classic
Maya vases, bowls, plates, cache vessels, effigy containers and
associated ceramic art that he has been photographing. The text
and photography for this new book on Maya art is now finished,.
The text is being edited by Jack Sulak and by Andrea David.
Because it will be over a year before the process of selection
of publisher, additional editing, typesetting and printing of
the new book is taken care of, F.L.A.A.R. will shortly be offering
pre-publication copies to benefactors who wish to send in a check
to help speed along the publication process. The book is in coffee
table format, preliminary page size of 31 x 31 centimeters.
To give an idea of the contents, here is the table of contents.
Forward, Preface, Introduction
Chapter 1, (Protoclassic) Pottery with Mammiform Tetrapod
Supports
Chapter 2, Basal Flange Bowls
Chapter 3, Cache Containers of the Early Classic Central
Peten Zotz style
Chapter 4, Cylindrical Tripods and related Bowls
Blackware Cylindrical Tripods
Blackware Bowls which are related to Blackware Cylindrical
Tripods
Bowl with an important Hieroglyphic Inscription
Polychrome Cylindrical Tripods
Stuccoed and painted cylindrical tripods
Painted cylindrical tripods but not on stucco
Polychrome Bowls as an evolution after Cylindrical Tripods
Chapter 5, Ceramic Art of Early Classic Tiquisate (cylindrical
tripods, bowls, incensarios)
Cylindrical Tripods showing the Tiquisate Trinity
Chapter 6, Decorated Bowls of Tepeu 1 Date
Definition of Hemispherical Bowls of Tepeu 1 Date and Style
Tepeu 1 Hemispherical Bowls with the Primary Standard Sequence
(PSS)
Multiple-Band Tepeu 1 PSS Bowls
Red Band Tepeu 1 Bowls
Chapter 7, Plates
The Sequence of Evolution from Basal Flange Bowls to Tepeu
1 Plate Form
Introducting Plates of the Completely Black andWhite Style
(not Eastern Peten)
The Moan Bird Plate Style
The Big Glyph Plate Style of Campeche or Yucatan
Chapter 8, Flat-Bottomed Bowls, mostly Tepeu 2
Bowls with solid clay Nubbin Supports
Chapter 9, Ring-based Bowls from the Campeche-Peten border
Region
Bowls (without pedestal base) with related scenes (which
are primarily enema scenes)
Vase with related Enema Scene
Chapter 10, Late Classic (Tepeu 2) Vases
Throne Scenes
Vases with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (usually the PSS)
Chapter 11, Codex Style and related Black-on-White Styles
Chapter 12, Highland Maya Vases
Chama Bowl
Highland God D-God K Style
Carved Vases of various Middle Motagua Valley and related
Workshops
Chapter 13, Unusual Carved and Moldmade Vases: Late Tiquisate
and Motagua Interconnections
Chapter 14, Maya and Tiquisate Features on a large Bowl of
Rio Blanco Style: An example of sharing between Veracruz and
the Maya Areas
Chapter 15, Miscellaneous Vases and Bowls
Chapter 16, Felines, Monkeys, Deer, and Flowers: Flora and
Fauna in Classic Maya Art on Ceramics.
Chapter 17, Sports of the Classic Maya: Hunting and Ballgames
Chapter 18, Ceramic Art of the Terminal Classic Decades
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Comprehensive Glossary of Maya Ceramics, Style, and related
Iconography
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
On occasion we will post samples of the illustrations and text
from this new book. These will be linked on this page (such as
the link in Chapter 7 for plates
with hieroglyphic texts), so bookmark this page and perhaps
return every month.
Since the Glossary is the first comprehensive glossary dedicated
specifically to the iconography of Maya pottery we are considering
issuing this as a separate pre-print to individuals who order
and pay in advance. This glossary summarizes information based
on the last thirty years of Hellmuth's extensive photography of
rare and previously unknown Maya art throughout the world. This
glossary also reports upon the considerable amount of information
gathered from the hundreds and hundreds of rollout photographs
taken by F.L.A.A.R.with our now three rollout cameras during six
months sustained photography in Guatemala during 1997.
