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Sacred clay tablet with abstract design
Sacred clay tablet with abstract design
Sacred clay tablet with abstract design
DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with abstract design

NameTablet
Artist Artist Not Recorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions2 3/16 × 1 9/16 × 1/2 in. (5.5 × 4 × 1.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.105
Object numberA.2014.26.105
DescriptionTablet with abstract design. Broad, angular crescent shape rests on an upward angled base divided into two sections. Two short horizontal lines extend out from the top section. These end with short perpendicular lines, forming elongated T shapes.