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Art of the Ancient Americas
Cylindrical vase with incised frontal view of a deity,
800–600 BCE
Olmec style
Middle Formative Period
y1985-20
Information
Title
Cylindrical vase with incised frontal view of a deity
Dates
800–600 BCE
Medium
Blackware ceramic
Dimensions
h. 13.8, diam. 9.0 cm. (5 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jeanette and Myer Bello
Object Number
y1985-20
Place Made
North America, Mexico, Central Mexico, Tlapacoya
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
Gift of Jeanette Pepper Bello (1918-2016) and Myer Bello (d. 2003), to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1985.
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Peter David Joralemon, "A Study of Olmec Iconography" in Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology No. 7, (1971): 1–95
, figs. 128 and 257 (illus. line drawing) - Peter David Joralemon, "The Olmec Dragon: A Study of Pre-Columbian Iconography," in Origins of Religious Art and Iconography in Preclassic Mesoamerica, ed. Henry B. Nicholson (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1976), fig. 9t (illus. line drawing)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1985," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 45, no. 1 (1986): p.16–42, p. 30, illustrated p. 34
