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Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque
c. 400–500
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Harvard archaeologists excavated this ornament from Grave 32 at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The warm gleam of gold linked rulers with the sun’s creative force.
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- Title: Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque
- Date Created: c. 400–500
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 9.3 x 10 cm (3 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
- Provenance: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., to John Wise Ltd. Galleries, New York, NY, Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1951, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Type: Metalwork
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.155
- Medium: hammered gold
- Fun Fact: This disk was excavated from a burial containing three bodies.
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Culture: Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century
- Credit Line: The Norweb Collection
- Collection: AA - Intermediate Region
- Accession Number: 1951.155
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