DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with simple cross formed by six hollow squares

NameTablet

Artist Artist unrecorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 1/16 × 1 9/16 × 7/16 in. (5.2 × 3.9 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.71

Object numberA.2014.26.71

DescriptionTablet with simple cross in center formed by arranging six hollow squares. Vertical shaft of cross represented by upright stack of four squares. The crossbar is formed by attaching two more squares to the sides of the third square up from the bottom. Short straight lines extend downwards from an arch over the top of the cross.