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Architectural Sculpture Fragment
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About this work
This architectural sculpture fragment probably once formed part of a tomb façade; technically similar sculptures have been found at the Zapotec site Lambityeco. Ancestral tombs were usually located beneath the courtyard of the family home and were often reused for successive generations. This image of a man wearing a feline mask over the lower face may portray a lineage founder.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineArchitectural Sculpture Fragment, c. 700–1000. Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec. Unfired clay, covered with painted stucco; overall: 22.8 x 12.5 x 13 cm (9 x 4 15/16 x 5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Brian and Florence Mahony, 1996.401
