Stela Fragment
600–950
Maker Unknown
Art of the Americas
Stela Fragment, 600–950. Mexico, Veracruz?, 600-950 AD. Limestone; each: 31.8 x 30.8 x 12.2 cm (12 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 4 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1959.334 Figures appear on two sides of this fragmentary stela (upright stone slab carved in relief). One seems to represent a grimacing warrior who brandishes a club; arrow-like darts festoon his belt and hair. On the other side is a skeleton with one fleshed hand, perhaps a sacrificed captive. The eagle with a leaf in its mouth is a hieroglyph that may identify the captive's name. The pointed teeth of the warrior are suggestive of dental modification, a practice known to have occurred from human remains.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- limestone
- Medium
- limestone
- Dimensions
- Each: 31.8 x 30.8 x 12.2 cm (12 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 4 13/16 in.)
- Departments
- Art of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1959.334
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty, The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America, The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
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