DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with crucifix

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions1 13/16 × 1 3/8 × 9/16 in. (4.6 × 3.5 × 1.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.132

Object numberA.2014.26.132

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with crucifix in center. Cross is large, figure is small. Diagonal line extends down towards cross from upper left corner of tablet. Two vertical lines extend down from top edge of tablet towards top of cross. Diagonal line from lower left corner of tablet extends up toward cross. Several more lines and marks around cross. Row of very short lines along left edge of tablet.