Cleveland Museum of Art

Offering Group

Date

c. 800–1200(?)

Medium

travertine or tecali

Culture

Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style

Department

Art of the Americas

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The objects in this group, all with traces of red pigment, are said to have been found together, the shells and greenstone plaque inside the translucent stone vessel. A similar offering was found in a pyramid ornamented with feathered serpents at Xochicalco, a site south of the Valley of Mexico.

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