Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque
400–500
- Medium
- hammered gold
- Dimensions
- Overall: 9.3 x 10 cm (3 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century
About
Harvard archaeologists excavated this ornament from Grave 32 at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The warm gleam of gold linked rulers with the sun’s creative force.