Potsherd: Tripod plate exterior showing undecorated tripod foot. Maya Motul de San Jose collection of whole and partial polychrome vessels of Late Classic period. Tripod plate. Exterior. 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.