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Offering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces
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About this work
This greenstone plaque is said to have been found inside a translucent stone vessel, together with two shells (1990.252.1–3). A similar offering was found in a pyramid ornamented with feathered serpents at Xochicalco, a site south of the Valley of Mexico.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineOffering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces, 800–1200(?). Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style. Jadeite with albitite; overall: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener, 1990.213
