DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with large heart at upper left

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions1 15/16 × 1 3/8 × 9/16 in. (4.9 × 3.5 × 1.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.53

Object numberA.2014.26.53

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with large heart at upper left. Vertical line under heart connects with horizontal line directly below heart at bottom of tablet. Cluster of short lines next to base of heart on right side of tablet may represent a flower. Vertical row of five dots further up on right probably represent small flowers. Two more small flowers on left side of bottom section of tablet.