Zapotec
Burial Vessel in the Form of the Rain God Cocijo
Zapotec, 600
Physical Qualities
Earthenware, 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm.) H
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1960.30.26
BMA by gift, 1960; Alan Wurtzburger, Baltimore; Charles Ratton, Paris
Darienne Turner, Baltimore Museum of Art, Ancient Americas Gallery Rotations, December 12, 2021.
The Wurtzburger Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958, p. 24, no. 26, ill. p. 43.
Inscribed: 2 stickers on the back: "Ratton Paris," which indicates the seller was likely Charles Ratton, and "551" is a sticker that the Wurtzburger family put on themselves. There is also illegible cursive handwriting, likely executed in pencil, on the interior back edge of the bowl the figure is holding.
On View: Ancient Americas
