Human effigy incense burner top

Seated male figure, likely portraying a Maya ruler in the guise of a deity associated with blood sacrifice, wears a zoomorphic headdress surmounted by a cartouche in which originally was painted his name or noble title (now eroded). He wears a large pectoral depicting a humanoid face, which may represent the Maize god, and holds a human heart in his hands. His body is painted red. See 1988.1228a and 1988.1249 for other nearly identical figural sculptures.