DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with abstract design
NameTablet
Artist
Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions1 15/16 × 1 9/16 × 7/16 in. (5 × 4 × 1.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.141
Object numberA.2014.26.141
DescriptionTablet with abstract design. Small, solid horizontal rectangle in center. On each side, two curving lines extend out from the corners towards the edges of the tablet. Two horizontal lines also extend outwards from the sides of the rectangle towards the edges of the tablet. Repeating short horizontal and diagonal lines form simple stepped design at top and bottom of the tablet.
