File:Guatemala(?), Escuintla, Teotihuacán style, Classic Period - Mirror Back with Great Goddess - 1989.65 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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Mirror Back with Great Goddess   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Mirror Back with Great Goddess
Object type sculpture
object_type QS:P31,Q860861
Description
An important female deity commands the watery scene on the back of this mirror. The face, bordered by ear ornaments and partially hidden by a nose ornament, appears beneath a huge headdress with the fringed eyes and curled proboscis of an abstract butterfly. The deity rests on a shell-studded water band and two adoring humans offer flowers or incense in a bag. Mirrors served as costume ornaments and perhaps were used in rituals to divine the unknown.
Date between 400 and 550
Medium Slate, pigment; other side originally inlaid with polished pyrite mirror
Dimensions Overall: 20.1 x 0.2 cm (7 15/16 x 1/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Art of the Americas
Accession number
1989.65
Place of creation Guatemala(?), Escuintla, Teotihuacán style, Classic Period
Credit line James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.65

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