Cylindrical Seal | Yale University Art Gallery

1500–1000 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Art of the Ancient Americas

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 5 5/8 × 4 1/4 in. (14.3 × 10.795 cm)
Credit Line: Private collection
Loan number: ILE2009.9.9
Geography: Guatemala, or Mexico
Culture: Mexico or Guatemala, Olmec
Period: Early Formative, first phase
Classification: Tools and Equipment
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Provenance

Collection of Mr. Jay C. Leff, (1925-2000

Bibliography

Michael D. Coe, The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico (Greenwich, Conn.: Museum of Primitive Art, 1965), 94–95, no. 173, Roll-out sketch of seal on page 95

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seals

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