K5619 is a polychrome ceramic vessel from the Early Classic period recovered from Uaxactun’s Burial A-22. The vessel is relatively simple in its layout; it features three deity head glyphs that each sit within a T-shape. This T-shape may be a reference to the T-shaped tooth and mouths that these deities often have, which are derived from sharks.

The first head is that of the Jaguar War God. He can be recognized by the curled pupil, large singular tooth, jaguar ear, and an AK’AB ‘darkness’ glyph “god-marking” on his cheek. The second head belongs to the Pax God, the frequent companion of the Jaguar War God. His head features a square pupil, a large singular tooth, a missing lower jaw replaced by a TE’ ‘wood’ glyph that may represent tree sap, a jaguar paw ear, and a LEM ‘bright/shiny’ glyph “god-marking” on the cheek. The third and final head likely depicts the Bloody-Mouthed God. He shares the large tooth, and he also has a large eye with a curled pupil, a missing lower jaw with blood or plant-like elements emerging, and he has more plant-like designs attached to the back of his head. While this head is the most interesting to me, as depictions of the Bloody-Mouthed God are relatively rare, especially from the Early Classic, this head is also the most damaged out of the three, though many of the features can still be made out.

Sources
Justin Kerr photograph collection, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, DC.
Smith, Robert E.
1955 Ceramic Sequence at Uaxactun, Guatemala. Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans.