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Source Description
Harvard archaeologists excavated this ornament from Grave 32 at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The warm gleam of gold linked rulers with the sun’s creative force.
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128161
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Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque
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128161
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title
Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque
description
Harvard archaeologists excavated this ornament from Grave 32 at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The warm gleam of gold linked rulers with the sun’s creative force.
date
c. 400–500
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CC0
language
en
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Q60747968
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Metalwork
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 9.3 x 10 cm (3 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
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Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century
accession
1951.155
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tec
hammered gold
tombstone
Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque, c. 400–500. Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century. Hammered gold; overall: 9.3 x 10 cm (3 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1951.155
collection
AA - Intermediate Region
didYouKnow
This disk was excavated from a burial containing three bodies.
citations
citation
Lothrop, S. K. "Archaeology of Southern Veraguas, Panama" <em>Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. </em>9:3 (1950)
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p. 285, fig. 252
citation
Bennett, Wendell C. <em>Ancient Arts of the Andes</em>. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
page_number
p. 158, fig. 184
citation
Couch, N. C. Christopher, Joanna Eckman, Daniel Jussim, and Jacquelyn Hamm Southern. <em>Faces of Eternity Masks of the Pre-Columbian Americas</em> [Anläßlich Der Ausstellung Vom 19. September - 15. Dezember, 1991 in Americas Society. Dalton: Studley Pr, 1991.
page_number
Cat. No. 31, p. 32
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The Norweb Collection
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2026-05-29 06:36:54.222000
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128161
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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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