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ID  386  -  Public access
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 The body of the figure has been replaced by an oblong rectangle with rounded edges from which long perimeter lines emerge two mythical crocodile heads in frontal view.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 no...
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ID  387  -  Public access
Description :   Breastplate of hammered and embossed gold alloy with the frontal design of the face of a supernatural being with facial features of an old man. It was part of the mortuary ensemble of individual 20, an infant, of the T2 tomb, along with other two pectorals, four bracelets and a necklace of green beads. It has two orifices for hanging at both sides of the beginning of the nose. Conte Style The design represents only the central part of the face where we see a wide and flat nose with little pronounced nostrils, the eyes formed by two oblong concentric circles and an open mouth that shows rectan...
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ID  389  -  Public access
Description :   Breastplate of hammered and embossed gold alloy with the design of a supernatural being, representing a hybrid between squid and bird. Conte Style. The squid figure is the most immediate and it’s shown from a dorsal view. From the bottom up, we can see the triangular mantel with a rhomboidal fin attached to its lower half, the neck and the head with prominent round eyes and a large horny mouth in the shape of a parrot’s beak from which four arms come out (the other four cannot be seen) covered by round suckers. In the middle of its mantle there is a large triangle and another thirty-three...
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ID  421  -  Public access
Description :   Hammered gold circular pectoral with the embossed image of a supernatural hybrid being of bird and reptile, bordered by eighteen concentric circles. The piece has four perforations at the height of the figure´s neck for suspension or fastening. Conte Style. The different points of observation that the figure allows make its description very difficult. Viewed from above we have the representation of a mythical crocodile: a quadruped with a shortened trunk in crawling position, with its head turned towards the spectator in a torsion that is anatomically impossible but typical of the style. It...
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ID  445  -  Public access
Description :   Discoidal brestplate of embossed gold with the design of a supernatural hybrid being of squid and bird. Conte metallurgical group. The image, organized with bilateral axial symmetry, is presented from dorsal view. From the bottom up the figure has a triangular mantel from which emerge some prolongations with curved patterns (feathers). These prolongations bend over the mantel and correspond to the extended fin of the animal. Follows a marked nape structure and a head represented as the result of the union of the two bird heads profiles that are pointing upward. They lack the inferior mandible....
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ID  446  -  Public access
Description :   Discoidal breastplate of embossed gold alloy with the design of a supernatural hybrid being of squid and bird. Conte metallurgical group. The image, organized with bilateral axial symmetry, is presented from a dorsal view.. From the bottom up the figure has a triangular mantel from which emerge some prolongations with curved patterns (feathers). These prolongations bend over the mantel and correspond to the extended fin of the animal. There follows a marked nape structure and a head represented as the result of the union of the two bird heads profiles that are pointing upward. They lack the ...
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ID  523  -  Public access
Description :   Round breastplate of embossed gold with the design of a supernatural zoomorphic hybrid being (bird and reptile) Metallurgical group Conte. The main figure is formed by the union of two mythical two-headed crocodile serpent shaped profiles, which face in opposite directions and have a large mouth, sharp triangular teeth, upward curved noses, round eyes, marked orbital ridges and two crests. The profiles of the heads on the upper part of the breastplate are joined by their jaws forming a fifth in frontal vision, in addition, the artist takes advantage of the last of the sharp teeth of the upper...
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ID  526  -  Public access
Description :   Embossed gold discoidal pectoral with a frontal representation of the face of a supernatural being with the features of an old man. Conte metallurgical group. The represented face has a wide and prominent nose, the eyes are two concentric ovals and in the large mouth the teeth, large and separated between which the tongue is observed, take the form of truncated triangles. The same line that traces the nose borders the eyes and delimits the cheeks, with cheek bones and the nasogenian furrow very marked. The ears, with the somewhat inverted curvature, may have circular ear rods. Two slightly f...
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ID  527  -  Public access
Description :   Gold discoidal pectoral which is embossed with the face of a supernatural being with the features of a mythical crocodile. Conte metallurgical group. The face has a wide and prominent nose; round eyes with marked bony ridges; and a fleshy mouth with triangular teeth from which hangs a forked tongue. From the area between the eyes, nose, and the base of the forehead come two ridges that are curled at the ends and which make the oval of the face. These iconographic features are interpreted within the Conte style as belonging to a mythical crocodile or dragon. The nose, eyes and mouth are biolog...
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ID  530  -  Public access
Description :   Embossed gold discoidal pectoral with the anthropo-zoomorphic representation of a supernatural being in a bipedal position with open extremities, whose iconographic features are generally interpreted as belonging to a mythical crocodile or dragon. Conte metallurgical group. The head is that of a fantastic being with a large mouth with sharp triangular teeth, nose curved upwards, round eyes with a marked elongated bony rim, ears at the height of the mouth, swirls towards the forehead and with circular ear rods. From the base of the forehead emerge four ridges, two adorned at the top with half t...
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