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Miller,<i> The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art</i> (New York and Fort Worth, George Braziller, Inc. and Kimbell Art Museum, 1986)., pl. 118, p. 288, pp. 298–299 (illus.)","date":1986,"id":2678,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/13327308"},{"boilertext":"Barbara Kerr and Justin Kerr, \"The Way of God L: The Princeton Vase Revisited,\"&nbsp;<EM>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</EM> 64 (2005): 71-79.","citation":"Barbara Kerr and Justin Kerr, \"The Way of God L: The Princeton Vase Revisited,\"&nbsp;<EM>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</EM> 64 (2005): 71-79., fig. 8, p. 75","date":2005,"id":2747,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774836"},{"boilertext":"Kornelia Kurbjuhn, \"Man in the Turtle, Man in the Snail: A Study of Occupants of Turtle and Snail Shells in Maya Art,\" in <EM>Fifth Palenque Round Table, 1983,</EM> Volume VII, ed. Virginia M. Fields (San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1985): 159-169.","citation":"Kornelia Kurbjuhn, \"Man in the Turtle, Man in the Snail: A Study of Occupants of Turtle and Snail Shells in Maya Art,\" in <EM>Fifth Palenque Round Table, 1983,</EM> Volume VII, ed. Virginia M. 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