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Object Number
63-24-20/76378.1.29
Display Title
Female Personage Attired in the Habiliaments of the Goddess "8 Z"
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "Oaxaca, Zapotec. Cat. No. C/47138 / Female Personage Attired in the Habiliaments of the Goddess "8 Z" (La Diosa "8 Z") Height: 8 1/4". Color: Dark gray ceramic with a red wash and a light gray overwash, showing a pink overtone. Provenience: Zaachila. Collected by G.W.E. Griffiths about 1885. Acquired in 1889. Epoch III-A of Monte Alban. (A.D. 350 - 600) This goddess is the female counterpart of the God with the Buccal Mask of the Serpent. See Caso & Bernal's "Urnas de Oaxaca," 1952, p. 163. Note: Immediately above the lower band of the headdress two horizontal bars appear, each decorated with transverse lines, the two ends of the upper bar terminating in volutes." (Please see Object Description text entry for complete description.)
Department
Photographic
Date
April 1963
Artist
Morton Bartlett
Culture
- Mesoamerican
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
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Mexico
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Oaxaca
Dimensions
Overall: 25.4001 × 20.6375 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
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