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ID  542  -  Public access
Description :   Gold sheathing that covered a pendant of perishable material representing a seahorse that was part of the mortuary ensemble of the main individual I7 of tomb T2. The suspension hole is located on the neck. The sheathing corresponds to the right half of the animal without it being possible to determine if another lost sheathing, covered the left part of the figure. It is a naturalistic representation of a seahorse: highlighted eyes, tubular snout, coronet, compressed body, laterally covered with a bony skin rings and a prehensile tail rolled up at the front.
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ID  955  -  Public access
Description :   Cast gold figurative pendant. It represents a highly schematized crocodile whose head has been replaced by a human head, made with more detail, wearing a large headdress and facial paintings. A defect in the casting process of the piece has deformed its jaw in such a way that it is not possible to appreciate the features of the lower part of the face. On the back there is a ring at the height of the neck for suspension. International style. It is not easy to describe the body of the figure if the most naturalistic models and intermediate stages of the style that lead to the schematization pres...
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ID  956  -  Public access
Description :   Pendant in the form of a stylized opossum in ventral view, bringing an object to its mouth. It has supernatural elements, such as two crests and a belt whose ends hang and curl to the sides. The suspension ring is located behind its neck. International style. The piece is quite worn by use, which attenuates the definition of its features, but it is possible to recognize the figure of a possum: a conical head, large in relation to the body; a snout that gradually diminishes ending in a point; large, round and separated eyes; short, thin paws with an opposable thumb allowing it to grasp object...
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ID  957  -  Public access
Description :   Gold pendant. It represents a hummingbird. The wings of the hummingbird when seen from the front represent a flower.
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ID  960  -  Public access
Description :   Spider shaped copper pendant. It's very oxidised. The spider's abdomen is an emerald. The emerald was registered under number 7644.
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ID  993  -  Public access
Description :   Gold pendant representing two birds placed in parallel, wings folded and heads facing opposite directions. It was found inside tomb T2, in unit UE132, a deposit of materials resulting from the sliding of the materials of burial unit UE125, from tomb T6 into the tomb T2. Therefore this pendant, although it was found in tomb T2 comes from tomb T6.
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ID  1012  -  Public access
Description :   Pendant of cast copper in the form of a human figure in the process of tearing out its eyes. It has a perforated emerald partially embedded in its belly, and two vertical rings in the back at shoulder level for suspension. The figure has its legs slightly flexed and its hands are directed towards the face, where the right is closed around the gouged right eye and the left grabs and removes the left eye from its socket, which appears empty. A trapezoidal skirt hanging from a braided cord belt can be seen. Two braided cords cross at the top of the chest and fall over the back. These seem to sup...
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ID  1015  -  Public access
Description :   Figurative cast gold pendant representing a naked man in a trance, wearing a headdress and bird mask. It has a ring behind the neck for suspension. Conte style. It is a naked human male figure in a round bundle, with clearly marked sex. He stands with his arms open, bent at the elbows, and extended slightly forward. The left hand, with exaggeratedly long fingers, opens towards the observer in a gesture that advances the thumb, while the right hand closes over a long, pointed artifact from the top of which two elements curve inwards towards the sides. The feet do not rest on the ground and ha...
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ID  1016  -  Public access
Description :   Cast gold figurative pendant. Mythical crocodile in the shape of a fang. The figure is composed of three elements: the head and upper extremities represented in frontal view, and the rest of the body which is represented in dorsal view and stylized in the form of a fang. Its eyes are large, round and protrude from their orbits; the mouth is large and open, the teeth show and it reveals a short and wide tongue, unusual in style; the nose curls inwards and the ears are half spirals. The headdress is a band formed by two smooth strips with another in the middle divided into ten squares. The flex...
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ID  1021  -  Public access
Description :   Tumbaga pendant in the form of a fish, probably a catfish.
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