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Plaque
The collection record classifies this work as jewelry. It is dated c. 500–200 BCE. Recorded culture or place: Peru, North Coast, Chongoyape(?), Chavín style (900-200 BCE).
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- Museum title
- Plaque
- Date
- c. 500–200 BCE
- Culture / origin
- Peru, North Coast, Chongoyape(?), Chavín style (900-200 BCE)
- Materials and technique
- hammered and cut gold
- Dimensions
- Overall: 12.5 x 13.8 cm (4 15/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1938.431
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
These plaques showing a powerful Chavín deity may come from a group of gold objects found in a lavish tomb in the 1920s. One is shaped as the deity’s fanged head, its fur transformed into sixteen serpents that edge the plaque. On the other, the deity’s visually elusive body also appears: the clawed hands over the chest may clutch a horizontal staff, an emblem of authority; across the waist is a belt that sprouts serpents; and beneath are the legs and feet, which stand atop fanged masks.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Dudley P. Allen Fund · CC0
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