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Butterfly Nose Ornament, 150–200 CE

Butterfly Nose Ornament

150–200 CE · Stone

May one see it?

Yes, receiving visitors

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Room233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region

On public display.

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In this state since
Source
The museum
On the mapMuseum page

About the sculpture

Near Teotihuacán’s largest palace is a temple ornamented with green-feathered serpents, symbols of the earth’s fertility. Beneath the temple were at least 120 human sacrifices, most men, many warriors, and some wearing greenstone ornaments like these, perhaps a set. The sacrifices may have consecrated the temple or a ruler’s tomb, or both.

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Particulars

Accession number
1990.263.2

In the catalog

SculptureCentral Mexico, Teotihuacán, Classic period

Sources

In the same room · 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Museum page
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Figure of a Warrior, after 1325 (thermoluminescence date of casting core, 1345–1575)