Plaque Item Number: Sf578 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Cut-out, repousse, gilded square metal plaque with eight equidistant holes at edges. Same motif repeated on both halves: two heads, one up and one down, with plumes and one paw surrounded by bands with zig-zagged edges and rows of repousse dots at centre of bands.
History Of Use
Holes suggest it was attached to a backing or suspended.
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period; 300 B.C.E.-600 C.E.
Iconographic Meaning
Four interlocking serpents
Item History
What
- Name
- Plaque
- Identification Number
- Sf578
- Type of Item
- plaque
- Material
- copper metal, gold metal and iron metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, cut, gilded and repousse
- Overall
- height 2.2 cm, width 18.0 cm, depth 16.8 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 301 BCE and 600
- 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
- 0711/0080