Celt | Yale University Art Gallery

900–400 B.C.

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

Medium: Greenstone
Dimensions: 19 × 4 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. (48.3 × 11.7 × 2.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil. 1974
Accession Number: 2018.173.16
Geography: Guatemala, or Mexico
Culture: Mexico or Guatemala, Olmec
Period: Middle Formative Period
Classification: Ritual Objects
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Ex Collection: Throckmorton Fine Arts, New York
Private Collection, San Diego, CA, acquired in the 1950s.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

celts, ceremonial objects, sautoirs

IIIF: Open in Mirador

View IIIF manifest

The International Image Interoperability Framework, or IIIF, is an open standard for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. Visit iiif.io to learn more
Linked Art: API response for this object

Linked Art is a Community working together to create a shared Model based on Linked Open Data to describe Art.