id:			155049
accession number:	1989.65
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.65
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:07.921000

Mirror Back with Great Goddess, 400–550 CE. Guatemala(?), Escuintla, Teotihuacán style, Classic Period. Slate, pigment; other side originally inlaid with polished pyrite mirror; overall: 20.1 x 0.2 cm (7 15/16 x 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund 1989.65

title:				Mirror Back with Great Goddess
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creation date:			400–550 CE
creation date earliest:		400
creation date latest:		550
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund
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culture:	Guatemala(?), Escuintla, Teotihuacán style, Classic Period
technique:	slate, pigment; other side originally inlaid with polished pyrite mirror
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 20.1 x 0.2 cm (7 15/16 x 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1989
	opening date:   1990-02-06T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1989</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).

	title:		Teotihuacán: City of Water, City of Fire
	opening date:   2017-09-30T04:00:00
	<i>Teotihuacán: City of Water, City of Fire</i>. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 30, 2017-February 11, 2018); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (March 25-September 3, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1989-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Kidder, Alfred Vincent, Jesse D. Jennings, Edwin M. Shook, and Anna O. Shepard. <em>Excavations at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala. </em>1946.
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	Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "Veneration of the Dead: Religious Ritual on a Pre-Columbian Mirror-Back." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 9 (1990): 326-51.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cover, p. 326-27; Mentioned: p. 326-51
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161301

	Berlo, Janet Catherine. Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 8th and 9th October 1988. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992.
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	Berrin, Kathleen, and Esther Pasztory.<em> Teotihuacan: Art from the City of the Gods</em>. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1993.
	page number: 	p. 274
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	Benson, Elizabeth P. <em>Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estaticas</em>. (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2006.)
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	Robb, Matthew H., et al. <em>Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire</em>. 2017.
	page number: 	cat. no. 180, illus, p. 126
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