DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with crucified figure but no cross

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 1/8 × 1 9/16 × 7/16 in. (5.4 × 3.9 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.135

Object numberA.2014.26.135

DescriptionTablet with crucified figure but no cross. Figure leans left and left arm touches edge of tablet. Rib cage prominent above empty space where waist should be. Loincloth hangs to left of figure. Tall plant (lily) to left of figure. Stalk of another plant to right of figure curves up with unevenly spaced leaves. Four lines form corona above head of figure.