Composite Drawing of Four Profiles from Incised on Celts

Autor
Schele or Reilly?
Material
Black ink on mylar
Dimensiones de Objeto
5 3/4 x 11 in
Colección de Objeto
La Colección de Dibujos de Linda Schele
Numero de Objeto
SD-4514
Anotaciónes
La Venta; Offering 1942-C; Mounds A-2; (MNAH, Olmec Art #114) Tabasco? (Met-1, Olmec Art #116); Covarrubias, Art of Ancient and Modern Latin Am 1968, pl.11 La Venta Offering #2 Incised profile from celt Las Tuxtlas, Vera Incised Celt
Bibliografía

Schele, Linda. 1995. "The Olmec Mountain and Tree of Creation in Mesoamerican Cosmology". Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership: 5: 106, Fig. 3a, 3c; 262, Fig. 1E;

P. Benson and B. de la Fuente, eds., Olmec art of Ancient Mexico, 1996: 267, No. 116

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Sitio Encontrado
La Venta; Las Tuxtlas
Región Geográfica
Mexico, Tabasco and Veracruz
Región Cronológico
Pre Classic - Formative
Cultura
Olmec
Dimensiones de Sujeto
a = 14 x 7.5 x 2.7 c
Institución o Colección de Sujeto
a = Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City; b = Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Descripción

Incised Celts, including, left to right: a = celt from Offering 1942-C, Mound A-2; b = celt with incised human profile and hand motif; c = profile with vegetation sprouting from cleft forehead; d = carved frontal face.

Notas

See also SD4512. A: Jade from La Venta, Tabasco; B: Jade from Tabasco. Check data against info in OLMEC CAT and add biblio for Covarrubias citation. See also SD4512. A: Jade from La Venta, Tabasco; B: Jade from Tabasco

Bibliografía de Sujeto

OLMEC CAT

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