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Pendant (decorative gold plate)

The disc-shaped sheet could be used as a head or breast ornament, clothing utensil, offering, barter object or burial object. Aguilar (1996: 49-51, Figs. 25-28), Ferrero (1975: 257, Ilus. II-47-50) and Quilter (2000: 184, Fig. 9.4) depict sheet metal with a round or horseshoe shape. They have embossed, engraved and punched decorations depicting rows of dots, circles or figurative motifs. (Künne 2005)

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Object type
Pendant (decorative gold plate)
Dimensions
Height: 9,1 cm
Depth: 0,5 cm
Width: 9,1 cm
Weight: 8,5 g
Material/Technique
Gold
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 32028

Provenance and sources

Production
when
700
where
Costa Rica
San José
Pérez Zeledón
El General
who
Alice Mertens
Collecting
who
Felix Wiß - Former Possessors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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