Skip to content
Pitt Rivers Museum
AboutHire the MuseumNewsletterUniversity of Oxford

1886.1.1055

Ceramic head

1886.1.1055

Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Terms and Conditions

If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.

Collection type
Object
Description
Ceramic head
Long description
Pottery figure of a triangular head, probably not moulded, with slit eyes and mouth and a cleft in the top of the skull.
Geographical reference
Mexico
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Mexico
Puebla State Cholula Great Pyramid of Cholula [Tlachihualtepetl]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1864 Archaeological period: Teotihuacan II, uncertain
Date collected
?On or before 1864
Acquisition information
Transferred: 05/10/1950
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Moulded
Dimensions
Width 55 mm, Length 62 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.1055

Search terms: Figure, Pottery

Further items to explore