Necklace (150–200 CE): Art, History and Details
Necklace at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 150–200 CE, jadeite-albitite?. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Necklace (150–200 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Near Teotihuacán’s largest palace is a temple ornamented with green-feathered serpents, symbols of the earth’s fertility. Beneath the temple were at least 120 human sacrifices, most men, many warriors, and some wearing greenstone ornaments like these, perhaps a set. The sacrifices may have consecrated the temple or a ruler’s tomb, or both.
Object facts
- Title: Necklace
- Date: 150–200 CE
- Culture: Central Mexico, Teotihuacán, Classic period
- Type: Jewelry
- Technique: jadeite-albitite?
- Dimensions: Overall: 40.3 cm (15 7/8 in.)
- Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Accession number: 1990.263.1.a
Collection credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
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