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Ear Rod
c. 700-900
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Harvard archaeologists excavated this and seven other ornaments 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 a large chest plaque and the rod-shaped ear ornament shown here.
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Details
- Title: Ear Rod
- Date Created: c. 700-900
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.); Overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: Grave 26, excavated by the Harvard Peabody Museum, 1930-1933
- Type: Metalwork
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.547
- Medium: hammered gold, with greenstone
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Culture: Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: AA - Intermediate Region
- Accession Number: 1951.547
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