Motul de San José

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A portrait of Lord Sak Ch’een of Motul de San Jose dressed as a ballplayer, from a cylindrical vase, 650 - 800 AD.
A portrait of Lord Sak Ch’een of Motul de San Jose dressed as a ballplayer,[1] from a cylindrical vase, 650 - 800 AD.

Motul de San José is an ancient Maya site located in just north of Lake Petén Itzá in the Petén Basin region of the southern Maya lowlands. It is located from a few kilometres from the modern village of San José, in Guatemala's northern department of Petén. It was an important political and economic centre during the Late Classic (650-950 C.E.), although its exact role in the Maya region is still unclear.

There is a glyphic record that sometime before AD 731 a lord of Motul was captured by a lord of Machaquilá.

It is recorded on Seibal Stela 10 as being one of the four paramount polities of around AD 849, along with Calakmul and Tikal.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Zender, p. 11, who cites David Stuart (2004) "Looking for Jaguar Hill: The Identification of a 'Lost' Maya Kingdom", in Smoking Mirror 11(7):7-10. Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C.

[edit] References

  • Tokovinine, Alexandre (2002) "Divine Patrons of the Maya Ballgame", Mesoweb, accessed November 2007.
  • Zender, Marc (2004) "Sport, Spectacle and Political Theater: New Views of the Classic Maya Ballgame" in The PARI Journal, Volume IV, No 4, Spring 2004.


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