File:Clevelandart 1952.459.jpg
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Summary
Pectoral (Chest Plaque)
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| Title |
Pectoral (Chest Plaque) |
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| Description |
Harvard archaeologists excavated the eight ornaments in this case from several burials at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The young man buried in Grave 26 was such a chief. His status was stunningly memorialized by 21 human companions and 475 objects, many of them personal ornaments made of gold, including the large chest plaque (no. 2) and the rod-shaped ear ornament (no. 3) shown here. The creature on the chest plaque, found close to the chief’s body, has reptile claws and perhaps the head crest of an iguana. Its meaning is unknown but perhaps, as in later periods, reptilian imagery and the warm gleam of gold linked rulers with the sun’s creative force. |
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| Date | 400 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Gold alloy | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 25.1 x 26.7 cm (9 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Art of the Americas |
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| Accession number |
1952.459 |
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| Place of creation | Intermediate Region, Panama, Conte style, 5th-10th Century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of Mrs. R. Henry Norweb, Mrs. Albert S. Ingalls, with additions from the John L. Severance Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.459 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
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The three-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with copyright terms of life of the creator plus 70 years or less. The creation of photographic reproduction of this object, however, generates a new copyright and an additional statement should be provided to indicate the copyright status of the image.
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This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
| The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| current | 08:53, 21 January 2019 | | 3,400 × 3,050 (6.29 MB) | Madreiling | pattypan 18.02 |
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