Vessel with Oculate Being

300 BCE–1 CE Overall: 40.8 cm (16 1/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.70

A supernatural creature known today as the Oculate Being, after its huge eyes, became prominent late in Paracas times. The Paracas left no written records and this creature's meaning is poorly apprehended, but it clutches a severed human head by the hair. A hint of the head's...

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1998.7
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