Cleveland Museum of Art

Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque

Date: c. 400–500
Medium: hammered gold
Culture: Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century
Department: Art of the Americas
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 128161

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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. This disk was excavated from a burial containing three bodies.

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Credit line: The Norweb Collection
Provenance: 1930s-1952: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., to John Wise Ltd. Galleries, New York, NY | 1930s-1951: Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1951, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1951: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Pre-Columbian Body Adornment
These objects are personal ornaments and jewelry worn by ancient Mesoamerican and Andean cultures, including ear ornaments, nose ornaments, plaques, and costume decorations made from precious metals, stone, shell, and ce
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