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

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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