"This is a strange and powerful story, based on impeccable
scholarship, and compellingly told. It is one of the few academic
books on the Maya that I would recommend to everyone." -- New
Scientist "This is a significant contribution to the field....
Quirigua, although well-studied archaeologically, has not received
this kind of single dedicated study of monuments.... This is not
because the site and its art are unimportant; as this study amply
demonstrates, the artwork of the site is of great significance
within the gamut of Classic Maya art." -- Rosemary A. Joyce,
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
The ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between
Copan in the southeastern Maya highlands and the major centers of
the Peten heartland. Though always a relatively small city,
Quirigua stands out because of its public monuments, which were
some of the greatest achievements of Classic Maya civilization.
Impressive not only for their colossal size, high sculptural
quality, and eloquent hieroglyphic texts, the sculptures of
Quirigua are also one of the few complete, in situ series of Maya
monuments anywhere, which makes them a crucial source of
information about ancient Maya spirituality and political practice
within a specific historical context.
Using epigraphic, iconographic, and stylistic analyses, this
study explores the integrated political-religious meanings of
Quirigua's monumental sculptures during the eighth-century A.D.
reign of the city's most famous ruler, K'ak' Tiliw. In particular,
Matthew Looper focuses on the role of stelae and other sculpture in
representing the persona of the ruler not only as a political
authority butalso as a manifestation of various supernatural
entities with whom he was associated through ritual performance. By
tracing this sculptural program from its Early Classic beginnings
through the reigns of K'ak' Tiliw and his successors, and also by
linking it to practices at Copan, Looper offers important new
insights into the politico-religious history of Quirigua and its
ties to other Classic Maya centers, the role of kingship in Maya
society, and the development of Maya art.
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