Ornament Item Number: Sf776 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A sheet metal disc with a hole near the edge. Fragment of metal, strap-like remains in the hole. Gilded surface.
History Of Use
Small discs like these are mechanically fastened by staples to adornments, like masks and crowns belonging to the Vicus Style (Moseley, pl. XV; Disselhoff and Tushingham, pl.29).
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period; 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Ornament
- Identification Number
- Sf776
- Type of Item
- ornament
- Material
- gold metal, copper metal and silver metal ?
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, cut and gilded
- Overall
- height 0.9 cm, diameter 2.6 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 301 BCE and 200
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- metalwork
- Condition
- poor
- Accession Number
- 0711/0278