File:Clevelandart 1989.65.jpg
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Summary
Mirror Back with Great Goddess
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| Title |
Mirror Back with Great Goddess |
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| Description |
An important female deity commands the watery scene on the back of this mirror. The face, bordered by ear ornaments and partially hidden by a nose ornament, appears beneath a huge headdress with the fringed eyes and curled proboscis of an abstract butterfly. The deity rests on a shell-studded water band and two adoring humans offer flowers or incense in a bag. Mirrors served as costume ornaments and perhaps were used in rituals to divine the unknown. |
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| Date | 400 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Slate, pigment; other side originally inlaid with polished pyrite mirror | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 20.1 x 0.2 cm (7 15/16 x 1/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Art of the Americas |
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| Accession number |
1989.65 |
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| Place of creation | Guatemala(?), Escuintla, Teotihuacán style, Classic Period | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
 
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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 | 15:50, 21 January 2019 | | 3,400 × 2,875 (7.46 MB) | Madreiling | pattypan 18.02 |
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