Seated Figure

c. 900–300 BCE Overall: 11 x 6.2 x 3.9 cm (4 5/16 x 2 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.390

Like their contemporaries, the Olmec made figurines but of greenstone rather than clay. This one, whose identity and use are mysterious, holds objects that may address nature's fertility: on the right, perhaps a cut conch shell that refers to water, and on the left, what may b...

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120633
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CC0
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en
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1941.39
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Terms

संस्कृति
Mesoamerica, Mexico, Olmec
तकनीक
albitite
माध्यम
albitite
विधा
Jade
विभाग
Art of the Americas

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