In the first studies, the artistic appreciations bequeathed by the Mayas of Copan, Lencas of the Comayagua valley, inhabitants of the Sula valley, have often been considered as a more mythical-religious expression than political and civil expressions. However, archaeological, epigraphic and ethno-historical studies have established a strong relationship between the different Mesoamerican cultures, including the Maya, so that we now speak of a genuine civilization, and from the shared matrix diverse symbolic and artistic manifestations emerged.
As far as ceramics is concerned, the artists of the Maya Classic era knew, with extraordinary sensitivity, how to unite pictorial representations and hieroglyphic writing to create complex ceramic compositions in which their mastery of the cosmogony and the history of their people is evident; these works are, by right, among the best in the world.
