DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with complex, linear, abstract design

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 7/16 × 1 7/16 × 7/16 in. (6.2 × 3.6 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.77

Object numberA.2014.26.77

DescriptionTablet with complex, linear, abstract design, including a hollow pentagonal shape on one side and a pair of curving lines on the opposite side. A horizontal line crosses near what is either the top or bottom edge of the tablet with four sharp horn shapes attached. It is difficult to tell top from bottom of tablet.