EditorialThe Yaxchilan Lintels. Lintel 15. Structure 21. Carved limestone lintel with glyphs and a scene representing Lady Wak Tuun, during a bloodletting rite. She is carrying a basket with the paraphernalia used for auto-sacrifice: stingray spine, a rope and ...
EditorialLintel of the Roman theater of the city, in honor of the aedil Lucius Aemilius Rectus, who financed the reform of the same one. Late of the 1st-early 2nd centuries AD. Marble. From Carthago Nova (Cartagena, Region of Murcia, Spain). National Archaeolog...
EditorialLintel with the Entombment of Christ (right) and the Holy Women and Angel at the Sepulchre (left), ca. 1220?30, with modern recarving, French, Limestone, Overall: 26 3/4 x 94 1/2 x 12 in. (67.9 x 240 x 30.5 cm), Sculpture, This lintel surmounted a smal...
EditorialThe Yaxchilan lintels. Lintel 24. Classica Maya. 723-726. Mexico, Chiapas, Yaxhilan.Detail of Lady K'ab'al Xook. Limestone. The British Museum. London. United Kingdom.
EditorialNorth porch, Chartres cathedral, tympanon. On the lintel, Saint Mary's death and entombment, in the tympanon Mary's glorification; she is seated on a throne next to Christ who blesses her.
EditorialLintel 24, one of three panels from structure 23 at Yaxchilan, Mexico. It represents a bloodletting ritual performed by the king of Yaxchilan, Shield Jaguar II, and his wife, Lady K'ab'al Xook. The Maya king holds a flaming torch over his wife, who i...
EditorialLintel, from a series illustrating the accession rituals of the ruler Lord Bird. One of his wives conjures a vision of an ancestor who emerges from the mouth of a serpent coiled through a beaded blood scroll.770 CE Limestone,69.2 x 76.2 cm, Temple 21, ...
EditorialHouse of the Turtles, Uxmal, with small turtle sculptures on the lintel. Turtle shells were used in the Mayan rain-invoking rituals (7th-10th CE) .
EditorialCast Iron Window Lintel. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 38.5 x 50.1 cm (15 3/16 x 19 3/4 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard.