# Hieroglyphic Panel

- By: Maya (Possibly La Corona (Saknikte’), Usumacinta River area, Guatemala)
- Date: 650–800
- Medium: Limestone
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 28.6 × 26.7 × 3.8 cm (11 1/4 × 10 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)
- Culture: Guatemala
- Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by the Claire B. Zeisler Foundation
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/33231)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/4fa712e4-6b0c-154b-7eeb-c4aaea586225/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The Maya developed hieroglyphic writing to record the names, births, marriages, alliances, victories and coronations, and deaths of their rulers. Mythological events and religious happenings were also carefully chronicled. Today scholars are deciphering this script and linking the translated information to additional archaeological evidence in order to reconstruct ancient Maya history, belief, and culture. This fragment from a hieroglyphic panel contains calendrical information that was part of a longer text.

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