Vessel: partial tripod plate with geometric design of black triangles on interior wall; interior base may have more complex figural or animal design (seated on throne?), but mostly broken. Maya Motul de San Jose collection of whole and partial polychrome vessels of Late Classic period. Tripod plate. Possible figure seated on throne. Object,MSJ2A: Large horizontal excavation of palace and of dense midden in Court #4 of Group C Acropolis. This is a sub-royal elite Str. 8L-9. The palace may have been the residence of the royal scribe who painted the Ik Style Polychromes. The midden in units 3,5,40,41,42 included tools and wasters from the pottery production process, as well as hundreds of potsherds and other remains from domestic activity, as well as textile, figurine, and jewelry manufacture.