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Digital Object 386
Description:
Round breastplate of hammered and embossed gold alloy with the design of a supernatural being in the shape of a two-headed crocodile. Conte style. It has four orifices for hanging, aligned with the top edge of the animal’s body. The body of the figure has been replaced by an oblong rectangle with rounded edges from which long perimeter lines emerge two mythical crocodile heads in frontal view. They have large mouths, teeth in the shape of truncated triangles, wide, flat noses and round eyes with an orbital rim that continues in an inverted pointed triangle. From the union between the nose and the forehead, two crests emerge which the artist uses to mark the limits of the face that when they go down towards the sides leave four truncated triangles above the head that further down turn into the animal claws.
Excavation campaign:
 
2011
Record type:
 
Metal artifacts
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Archaeological site:
 
El Caño
Operation:
 
Operation 1
Stratigraphic group:
 
Tomb 6
Stratigraphic unit type:
 
Interment
Stratigraphic unit (finds):
 
125
Calibrated Age Range:
 
Cal AD 775 to 790 (Cal BP 1175 to 1160)/Cal AD 800 to 980 (Cal BP 1150 to 970)
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Artifacts
Metal artifacts:
 
Breastplate
Measurements
Dimension 1:
 
height mm
=:
 
210
Dimension 2:
 
width mm
=:
 
245
Dimension 3:
 
thickness mm
=:
 
1
Weight:
 
g
=:
 
210
Digital Object 386
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