Currently not on view
Cylinder stamp,
1200–900 BCE
Olmec style
Early Formative Period
y1994-14
Information
Title
Cylinder stamp
Dates
1200–900 BCE
Medium
Brownware ceramic
Dimensions
h. 8.4 cm., diam. 5.9 cm. (3 3/8 in. x 2 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
y1994-14
Place Collected
North America, Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Central Mexico, Tlatilco
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
- 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. 15r (illus. line drawing)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1994," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 54, no. 1 (1995): p. 40-79., p. 54
- Michael D. Coe et al., The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership (Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, 1996), cat. no. 100, p. 209 (illus.)
