DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with abstract design

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 7/16 × 2 1/16 × 7/16 in. (6.2 × 5.3 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.123

Object numberA.2014.26.123

DescriptionTablet with abstract design. Hollow rectangular space in center is formed by closing off space between two inward curving lines with two short horizontal lines. Another short horizontal line is attached to the inside of the arc on right. On both edges of tablet a linear wedge points left. Long, narrow trapezoid floats at top of tablet.