Preliminary Iconographic and Epigraphic Analysis of a Late Classic Vessel
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Abstract
“God D is one of the most important and perhaps the major god of the Classic and Post-Classic Maya pantheon, ” thus wrote Karl Taube in 1992 (page 31, italics in original). Already in early research the codical God D, as described and cataloged by Schellhas (1887, 1904), was identified as Itzamna (e.g. Fewkes 1895; Seler 1887). Since Taube’s discussion of God D several important examples of God D as painted in the Classic period have come to light as well as an important reference to him in a Late Classic inscription (Palenque, Temple XIX Bench Text). The subject of this essay is a tall cylindrical vessel at present part of a private collection, painted in a style closely related to the Codex Style of the area just north of the central Petén, Guatemala, an area around and including the archaeological site of Nakbé (e.g. Hansen, Bishop, and Fahsen 1991). Albeit tentative, the vessel may originated from the central Maya area. The vessel has a height of about 25 cm. and a diameter of circa 13 cm. The vessel illustrates a complex visual narrative that takes place at the court of God D (Figure 1). The rim text, the visual narrative, the principal protagonists, and the hieroglyphic texts that accompany the narrative are discussed in detail. In this essay the full name of God D will be presented as Itzam Nah Yax Kokaj Mut.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".