DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with complex, linear, abstract design
NameTablet
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions2 3/16 × 1 7/16 × 7/16 in. (5.5 × 3.6 × 1.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.78
Object numberA.2014.26.78
DescriptionTablet with complex, linear, abstract design. Center and top of tablet filled by large oval with chain of four sideways squares, stacked vertically from top to bottom, contained inside. Five-pointed star and small diamond-shape at center and bottom of left side of tablet. Distortion of clay at upper left. Horizontal line runs along bottom edge.
