Plaque

c. 500–200 BCE Overall: 12.5 x 13.8 cm (4 15/16 x 5 7/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.431

These plaques showing a powerful Chavín deity may come from a group of gold objects found in a lavish tomb in the 1920s. One is shaped as the deity’s fanged head, its fur transformed into sixteen serpents that edge the plaque. On the other, the deity’s visually elusive body al...

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