Description:
Gold breastplate in the shape of a stylized butterfly in flight. It has four perforations, to allow it to be hung or sewn to clothing, in the upper part of the plate. Conte Metallurgical Group
From an embossed central axis consisting of two strips joined together and separated in the centre, leaving a fusiform space, the shape of the plate suggests a pair of concave semicircular wings, which gives the piece a certain resemblance to a very stylised butterfly in flight. Its four wings would have been cast in twos. The head, thorax and abdomen are condensed into a fusiform element surrounded by two bands which when they surpass the upper part could suggest the antennae of the animal.
This piece forms part of the funerary bundle of individual I7 of tomb T7. Within the El Caño archaeological site, in the same tomb, there is another similar pectoral belonging to the same individual (AU12023), and another smaller one in tomb T2 (AU9380).
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