Mirror Back with Great Goddess

AD 400–550

Maker Unknown

Art of the Americas

Mirror Back with Great Goddess, AD 400–550. Guatemala(?), Escuintla, Teotihuacán style, Classic Period. Slate, pigment; other side originally inlaid with polished pyrite mirror; overall: 20.1 x 0.2 cm (7 15/16 x 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund 1989.65 This ancient Teotihuacan mirror may have been used in divination rituals.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Maker Unknown
Classification: Sculpture
Formatted Medium: slate, pigment; other side originally inlaid with polished pyrite mirror
Medium: slate, pigment, other, side, originally, inlaid, polished, pyrite, mirror
Dimensions: Overall: 20.1 x 0.2 cm (7 15/16 x 1/16 in.)
Departments: Art of the Americas
Accession Number: 1989.65
Credit Line: James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund
Exhibitions: The Year in Review for 1989, Teotihuacán: City of Water, City of Fire
Rights Statement: CC0
Museum Location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region