| Object Name: | Altar # 4 |
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| Creation Date: | c. 1000 BC | |
| Culture: | Olmec | |
| Site: | La Venta | |
| Material: | Basalt | |
| Repository: | Museo de la Venta, Parque Villahermosa | |
| Image source: | © Dr. Manuel Aguilar | |
| La Venta. An Olmec ruler emerges from the mouth of a schematic cave at the front of the stone. He is linked to ancestors of his lineage through ropes he is holding. Such 'altars' may have been thrones from which the reigning lord would have presided. Middle Formative. | ||
