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
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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