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Source Description
Harvard archaeologists excavated this and seven other ornaments from several burials at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The young man buried in Grave 26 was such a chief. His status was stunningly memorialized by 21 human companions and 475 objects, many of them personal ornaments made of gold, including a large chest plaque and a rod-shaped ear ornament.
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Document identity
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135162
label
Ear Spool
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obj
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object
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1
Source metadata
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135162
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object
title
Ear Spool
description
Harvard archaeologists excavated this and seven other ornaments from several burials at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The young man buried in Grave 26 was such a chief. His status was stunningly memorialized by 21 human companions and 475 objects, many of them personal ornaments made of gold, including a large chest plaque and a rod-shaped ear ornament.
date
c. 400–900
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60778914
genreSpecific
Metalwork
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.); Overall: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.)
cul
Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century
accession
1958.191.a
Source extras
tec
hammered gold
tombstone
Ear Spool, c. 400–900. Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century. Hammered gold; diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.); overall: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Roberta Holden Bole Fund, 1958.191.a
collection
AA - Intermediate Region
citations
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: P. 336
creditline
Roberta Holden Bole Fund
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2026-05-29 06:54:45.216000
sourceId
135162
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Art of the Americas
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AA - Intermediate Region
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hammered gold
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1
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0
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photo
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