Information
- Title
- Female figure with two heads/"pretty lady" figure
- Object Number
- 1999-246
- Medium
- Ceramic with traces of pigment
- Dates
- 1200–900 BCE
- Dimensions
- h. 6.8 cm., w. 3.4 cm., d. 1.5 cm. (2 11/16 x 1 5/16 x 5/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gillett G. Griffin
- Culture
- Early Preclassic
Tlatilco
- Period
- Formative
- Place made
- North America, Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Central Mexico, Tlatilco
- Marks/Labels/Seals
- Painted on verso: TLATILCO
1944, acquired by Spencer MacCallum (1931-2020), Class of 1954, in Tlatilco, Mexico; by April 1971, sold to Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [1]; 1999, gift of Gillett G. Griffin to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Notes:
[1] According to a March 31, 1987 Gillett G. Griffin insurance video, this object was acquired from Spencer MacCallum, who purchased it at Tlatilco in 1944 when he was 12
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1999," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 59, no. 1/2 (2000): p. 70-101., p. 96
- Cedrik Tekendo-Ngongang, Keith J. Williams, Marc S. Williams, "Cross-cultural representations of conjoined twins," American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics 187 (2021): pp. 240-253., Fig. 3c
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