DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with elaborate crucifixion scene
NameTablet
Artist
Artist Not Recorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions2 3/8 × 1 13/16 × 7/16 in. (6 × 4.6 × 1.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.85
Object numberA.2014.26.85
DescriptionTablet with elaborate crucifixion scene. Ladder to left of cross. Three tall plants with multiple leaves to right of cross. Figure on cross is large, relative to size of cross. Corona above head of figure. Horizontal cloud-like protrubrence in clay above cross. Pair of curving lines at base of cross.
