Pair of Ear Ornaments

Cleveland Museum of Art

Pair of Ear Ornaments

Date
150–200 CE
Medium
jadeite-albitite(?)
Culture
Central Mexico, Teotihuacán style, Classic period
Department
Art of the Americas
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
155560

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Near Teotihuacán's largest palace is a small temple gorgeously ornamented with green-feathered serpents, symbols of the earth's fertility. Beneath the temple lie at least 120 human sacrifices, most men, many warriors, and some wearing greenstone ornaments like these, perhaps a set. The sacrifices, apparently laid out to mark the cardinal directions, may have consecrated the temple or a ruler's tomb, or both.

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Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
Provenance
?-1965: Valetta Swan, 1965, to James C. and Florence C. Gruener | 1965-1990: James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1990: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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