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.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- slate, pigment; other side originally inlaid with 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
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
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