Plaque Item Number: Sf577 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Gilded repousse sheet metal plaque with six holes (three along each of the two longest edges). Two thirds of the plaque has a repousse stepped design at the edges with three circles running lengthwise down the centre. The remaining third has two circular bumps at the centre with diagonal lines to the sides and a long, oval shaped bump at the centre. Interior is also gilded with some brown metal showing through in a textile pseudomorph pattern.
Iconographic Meaning
Double headed serpent
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period; 300 B.C.E.- 600 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Plaque
- Identification Number
- Sf577
- Type of Item
- plaque
- Material
- gold metal and copper metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered, repousse and gilded
- Overall
- height 0.3 cm, width 13.0 cm, depth 7.8 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 301 BCE and 600
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- metalwork
- Condition
- poor
- Accession Number
- 0711/0079