Eccentrics carved in flint with a double clamp and indented edge on the sides. Similar objects have been found in ritual contexts, nooks or tombs; it could also have been used as a torture tool or in battle, but the remains of blue paint indicate that at some point this piece became a ritual object.
OBSERVATIONS: The hilt or tang, which could have been fitted into a long shaft thereby turning the point into a spear, is fractured.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ANDRIEU, Chloé. 2009, Outils mayas, distribution et production du silex et de l’obsidienne dans les Basses Terres, tesis doctoral Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre-La Défense, Paris.
NUÑEZ REGUEIRO, Paz. 2005, Les excentriques mayas, etudes comparative du matériel lithique et inconographique, Mémoire de DEA, Université Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, UFR Histoire de l’Art et Archéologie, ms.
Eccentrics carved in flint with a double clamp and indented edge on the sides. Similar objects have been found in ritual contexts, nooks or tombs; it could also have been used as a torture tool or in battle, but the remains of blue paint indicate that at some point this piece became a ritual object.
