Lid to Burial Urn with Male Effigy Figure

Artist:Moskito

Medium: Ceramic, pigment, slip

Geograhical Locations:

Dates:1000–1500 C.E.

Dimensions: B: 17 3/16 x 7 1/2 in. (43.7 x 19.1 cm)

Collections:

Accession Number: 49.191.2b

Catalogue Description:
Nude male figure with left hand resting on left knee (the right hand is missing) seated on top of the half-domed lid (b) of a cylindrical funerary urn (a). The figure is wearing ear ornaments. Cylindrical burial urns with rounded bases and an effigy figurethe bones of a secondary burial were found in a mound-covered stone tomb in an ancient cemetery near Ocuña, in the Magdalena Valley of Colombia.

Brooklyn Museum