Cleveland Museum of Art
Eccentric Flint
- Date
- 600–900
- Medium
- chipped flint
- Culture
- Guatemala, Quirigua, Maya style (250-900)
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 127481
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Named for their unusual shapes, eccentric flints often have intricately silhouetted figures like this. At the forehead of the main profile face is a smoking torch, the insignia of a deity closely linked to rulers and known today as K’awil. Smaller faces appear on three protrusions. Some flints may have served as scepters; they also were buried as offerings beneath buildings and sculptures.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- -1936: Don F. Dickson | 1936-1948: Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Simkhovitch | 1948-: Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch (1874-1959), New York, NY | -1950: John Wise, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1950-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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