Codex Style (original) (raw)
The Codex Style is one of the most celebrated and most recognizable styles of Ancient Maya art. It was first identified in 1973 by Michael Coe in the book: The Maya Scribe and His World (Coe 1973), in which the PSS (Primary Standard Sequence) was discovered. Coe called it “codex style” because he believed that the authors of the designs on the vessels were the same scribes who had painted or written the codices (Coe 1973: 13; 1994: 209–210) and that the paintings on the vessels imitated images of the Maya codices. The definition was later taken up by Robicsek and Hales in The Maya Book of Dead (Robicsek and Hales 1981), in a book, the title of which reveals the assumption that the vases could deal with subjects such as the Book of the Dead of the Ancient Egyptians and Underworld themes. Ne
