Plaque Item Number: Sf582 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Cut-out repousse metal plaque with a hole at each top corner. Overall appearance of top half of a face with eyes represented by concentric circles, forehead, and a headdress with snakes descending on both sides. Near the centre of the headdress is a circle of cut-out triangles and other shapes (six total), and there are diagonal lines cut out from the edge. Gilded surface.
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period; 300 B.C.E.-600 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Plaque
- Identification Number
- Sf582
- Type of Item
- plaque
- Material
- copper metal, silver metal ? and gold metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, repousse, gilded and cut
- Overall
- height 0.3 cm, width 12.2 cm, depth 7.9 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
- 0711/0084