Tecomate with excised shark
Tecomate with excised shark
Tecomate with excised shark
Tecomate with excised shark
Tecomate with excised shark
Tecomate with excised shark
Tecomate with excised shark
Tecomate with excised shark

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Tecomate with excised shark,

1500–1000 BCE

Olmec style
Early Formative Period
2024-22

Information

Title
Tecomate with excised shark
Dates

1500–1000 BCE

Medium
Reduction-fired ceramic with traces of red pigment
Dimensions
h. 9.5 × diam. 13.3 cm (3 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, The Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Curatorship of the Art of the Ancient Americas
Object Number
2024-22
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Puebla, Gulf coast, Las Bocas

Inscription
on bottom: GR695
Culture
Native American, Olmec
Period
Early Preclassic
Type
ceramics, vessels (containers)

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