Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century / c. 400–500
Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque as metalwork (Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century · c. 400–500).
This disk was excavated from a burial containing three bodies.
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The museum identifies this metalwork as hammered gold.
The museum's collection notes: Harvard archaeologists excavated this ornament from Grave 32 at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The warm gleam of gold linked rulers with the sun’s creative force.
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