Offering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces
800–1200
- Medium
- jadeite with albitite
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
About
This greenstone plaque is said to have been found inside a translucent stone vessel, together with two shells (1990.252.1–3). A similar offering was found in a pyramid ornamented with feathered serpents at Xochicalco, a site south of the Valley of Mexico.