~ Plaque of conjuration against the Lamashtu, called "plaque of the underworld" or Hell Plate.
Period: Neo-Assyrian (1st half of the millennium)
Place of origin: Assyria
Medium: Bronze
Source: collections.louvre.fr
~ Cup with Odysseus in the Underworld. Side A: Odysseus offering a sacrifice and blind prophet Tiresias.
Date: 25 B.C.-A.D. 100
Medium: Silver
Source: ancientrome.ru
~ Mask of Mictlantecuhtli, Lord of the Underworld.
Culture: Aztec (Mexica)
Place of origin: Mexico
Date: A.D. 1450-1521
Period: Late Postclassic
Medium: Wood, white ground with traces of black and red paint.
Source: art.thewalters.org
~ Cylinder vase.
Culture: Maya
Period: Late Classic Period.
Date: A.D. 650–800
Place of origin: Southeastern Guatemala or southern Belize
Medium: Earthenware wtih red, orange and black on cream slip paint.
• From the source: Two renderings of the so-called jaguar god of the Underworld (the underworld sun), one on each side of the vase, depict him seated on a throne of crossed femurs and disembodied eyes surrounded by the black waters of the Underworld. He holds a large sacrificial knife in his left hand, and blood splatters are found on his I-shaped pectoral and perhaps on his loincloth. The red background of the vase and the crossed femurs and eyeballs further invoke the theme of sacrifice. The two renderings of this supernatural are separated by a vertical stack of skeletal saurian heads that likely portray the witz/sacred mountain whose interior cave is the entrance to the Underworld realm. The two hieroglyphic texts may be pseudo-glyphs although the lower band contains some readable signs.
~ Figure of an underworld deity.
Date: A.D. 600–800
Period: Late Classic
Culture: Maya
Medium: Ceramic with traces of polychrome pigment.
Source: artmuseum.princeton.edu
~ Relief panel showing two baboons offering the wedjat eye to the sun god Khepri, who holds the Underworld sign.
Period: Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
Date: 400–200 B.C.
Geography: Egypt
Medium: Limestone
Source: metmuseum.org
~Carvel Vessel with an Underworld Diety (God L). 600-900 Mexico, Yucatán Peninsula Maya (Chocholá) style
Source: clevelandart.org