Stone carving, pale yellow/grey in colour. The carving is circular and has been carved with geometric linear designs. There is a raised circular section in the centre with further incising. Around the edge are two carved animal figures, possibly reptiles or fish. [JC [OPS Move] 29/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone carving, pale yellow/grey in colour. The carving is circular and has been carved with geometric linear designs. There is a raised circular section in the centre with further incising. Around the edge are two carved animal figures, possibly reptiles or fish. [JC [OPS Move] 29/6/2017]
Geographical reference: Mexico
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Mexico
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source George Anthony Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1898
Date collected: By 1898
Acquisition information: Donated: 27/10/2010
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Carved, Process Incised
Dimensions: Depth: max 22 mm, Diameter: max 90 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2010.78.20
Research and responses: This collection was looked at by Rosemary Joyce on the 2nd of December 2010 as part of the Fell Funded project "Characterising the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum'. Rosemary advised that these objects are without doubt examples of 19th century tourist art. So not 'archaeological', but none the less interesting for those looking at tourist art, especially in the 19th century. [FC 05/01/2011]
General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers obtained this object from George Fabian Lawrence, an antiquary, collector and dealer in antiquities. In the 1880’s became an antiquities dealer, opening a shop in Wandsworth. [FC 05/01/2011]

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