DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with simple linear cross
NameTablet
Artist
Artist Not Recorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions2 1/16 × 1 1/2 × 1/2 in. (5.3 × 3.8 × 1.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.139
Object numberA.2014.26.139
DescriptionTablet with simple linear cross in lower center. Shaft is an enclosed, tall, thin rectangle. Two pairs of faint parallel lines on both sides of shaft form crossbar. Organic shape in lower left corner of tablet. Probable matching shape on opposite side is hard to discern. Horizontal line extends across top of tablet and pair of short diagonal lines point down and out from opposite ends of horizontal line.
