The exact chronological classification and cultural attribution of the beam is not possible due to the imprecise circumstances of its discovery. Such balance beams were used on the the southern coast from the late intermediate period until the Inca period at the latest. at the latest. The Art Institute of Chicago (Ref. No. 1955.2579i) owns a comparable with incised circles in a diamond pattern, which comes from the Eduard Gaffron collection. collection. Beams with incised circles can also be found in the Metropolitan Museum in New York (Acc.No.1994.35.43).