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Object Number:20987
Current Location: Mexico and Central America Gallery
Currently On Display
Culture:Late Classic
Provenience: Honduras
Santa Rosa de Copan
Culture Area: Central American
Date Made: 750 CE
Early Date: 750
Late Date: 750
Section:American
Materials:Stone
Iconography:Sun God
Height: 39.4 cm
Width: 52.1 cm
Thickness: 11.5 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Gustave Niederlein, 1898

Description

Stone carving with jaguar ears, scroll eyebrows, fish fins on the cheeks, and a single, filed tooth.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Fourteen Eyes in a Museum Storeroom (05 Feb 1952 - 31 Mar 1952) View Objects in Exhibition
MAYA 2012: Lords of Time (05 May 2012 - 13 Jan 2013) View Objects in Exhibition
Mexico and Central American Gallery (16 Nov 2019) View Objects in Exhibition
Mayan Gallery (1954 - 2001) View Objects in Exhibition
Mesoamerican Gallery (23 Mar 2001 - 2018) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Article] 1898. "Collections and Publications". Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania. Vol. I. no. No. 4. pg. 184-188 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 187View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Danien, Elin. 2002. Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 65, pl. 59View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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