Vessel with Abstract Heads

100 BCE–700 CE Overall: 10.4 x 14 cm (4 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.279

Late Nasca supernatural depictions became abstract, detailed, and focused on the head. In this vessel's central register, for instance, a deity is reduced to two mask-like faces, edged by volutes and linked by tongues; the only remains of a body are the hands. The lower regist...

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