Lid to Burial Urn with Male Effigy Figure
Arts of the Americas
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MEDIUM
Ceramic, pigment, slip
DATES
1000–1500 C.E.
DIMENSIONS
B: 17 3/16 x 7 1/2 in. (43.7 x 19.1 cm)
ACCESSION NUMBER
49.191.2b
CREDIT LINE
Frank L. Babbott Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Nude male figure with left hand resting on left knee (the right hand is missing) seated on top of the half-domed lid (b) of a cylindrical funerary urn (a). The figure is wearing ear ornaments. Cylindrical burial urns with rounded bases and an effigy figurethe bones of a secondary burial were found in a mound-covered stone tomb in an ancient cemetery near Ocuña, in the Magdalena Valley of Colombia.
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