deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Allegorie op de Alliantie met Frankrijk, 1795
Object type: print
Date: 1795 – 1795
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: equality, equity, fairness, righteousness; 'equalità', 'equità', 'giuditio giusto', 'ordine dritto e giusto', 'ugualità' (ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by female figure), allegorical representations ~ religion; 'religione', 'religione de ss. mauritio e lazaro', 'religione vera christiana' (ripa), freedom, liberty; 'libertà' (ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by female figure), alliance with france (1795)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Allegorie op de Alliantie gesloten tussen de Bataafse Republiek en Frankrijk, 1795. Centraal de Vrijheid zittend op een troon, achter haar de Koopmanschap, links de Gelijkheid en rechts de Godsdienst (een predikant). Op de trappen links twee kinderen als de Commercie en Werktuigkunde, rechts twee kinderen als de Broederschap. In de wolken de Alliantie met de Franse en Nederlandse wapens. Vóór het onderschrift met de uitleg van de voorstelling.
Designs for Stage Set: Three Pavillions in Background with "Oriental" (Ogival) Cupolas with Two Small Fountains between Them; in Foreground, a large Fountain with Dolphins Surmounted by Neptune
Object type: drawing
Date: 1696 – 1756
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: pen
Artist: giuseppe galli bibiena
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1696 – 1756
Subjects: fountains,dolphins,stage design
Begraafplaats te Berlijn
Object type: photograph
Date: 1903 – 1910
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: suriname
Artist: hendrik doijer
Artist role: engineer
Artist dates: 1863 – 1925
Subjects: suriname
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘49. / Begraafplaats te Berlijn.’

Lokale begraafplaats te Berlijn in Suriname, houten staken in de grond markeren de graven. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum Souvenir de Voyage (deel 2), over het leven van de familie Doijer in en rond de plantage Ma Retraite in Suriname in de jaren 1903-1910.
Harlequin, Emperor on the Moon
Object type: print
Techniques: etching
Artist: claude gillot
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1673 – 1722
Subjects: men,women,clowns
Diana and Attendants?
Object type: drawing
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: anonymous, italian, roman-bolognese, 17th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1600 – 1700
Subjects: children,women,diana
Boomtakken
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1874 – 1874
Materials: chalk, paper, pencil
Artist: willem cornelis rip
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1856 – 1922
Subjects: trees (+ branch, stick)

Blad 22 verso uit een schetsboek met 27 losse bladen.
Waterval in het Drusendal in de Harz
Object type: photograph
Date: 1870 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: harz
Artist: r. höfel
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: waterfall, travelling; tourism

Onderdeel van Album met 38 foto's van een reis door de Harz.
Laan vóór het Weldam te Goor
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1856 – 1922
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: unknown
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: goor
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘N.° 3.’, name: ‘H. Ameschot.’, title: ‘Laan vóór het Weldam te Goor (Overijssel.)’
Rotterdam. Intérieur Groote Kerk
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1912 – 1912
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: leipzig
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: interior of church
Inscriptions: date
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Part of a foot type B with a broad reserve line at chamfer; outer face of foot is glazed
Portret van Gerret Braamcamp
Object type: drawing
Date: 1774 – 1774
Materials: paper
Techniques: pen
Artist: françoise jeanne ridderbosch
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1754 – 1837
Subjects: amsterdam, gerret braamcamp, historical persons, art collector
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, inscription: ‘Dees bussel/ printen hoort toe aen Joannes Jacobsch de/ Wilde geteekent den 17/ iulius 1805’
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 480
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, bent arm and top of thrysos
Kist gedecoreerd met twee vrouwfiguren en een cartouche (vermoedelijk) in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: matte daylight collodion silver print
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ornament ~ cartouche, chest, coffer
Inscriptions: number: ‘XXII (Kat 53) 51’, collector's mark: ‘Instituut voor kunst-nijverheidsonderwijs Gabriël Metsustraat No. 16, Amsterdam’, collector's mark: ‘Kunstnijverheidschool Quellinus Amsterdam Frans Halsstraat 14.’
Scarab Inscribed with the Name Amtenhotep
Object type: scarab, amenhotep i
Date: 1525 – 1504
Materials: stone
Techniques: glazing
Location: egypt
Subjects: hieroglyphs,scarabs
Vestigi della antichita di Roma, Tivoli, Pozzuolo et altri Luochi
Object type: print
Date: 1606 – 1606
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: prague
Subjects: rome, arch of constantine

Het Septizonium in Rome. Links bogen van de Aqua Claudia en rechts de Boog van Constantijn. In de ondermarge drie regels tekst in het Italiaans. De prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Dogū (Clay Figurine)
Object type: figurine
Date: 1050 – 200
Materials: earthenware
Culture: japanese
Subjects: female nudes

Clay figurines (dogū) of humans and animals were made throughout the Jōmon period, particularly during the latter half, and establish the beginnings of Japan’s sculptural tradition. The largest percentage of these figures, including this statuette from northern Honshū, comprises highly stylized females with enlarged breasts, hips, and stomachs presumed to have been fertility symbols. Because some of these figurines appear to have been broken intentionally, it has been hypothesized that they were used in rituals meant to cure physical ailments. It seems that once the affliction was ceremonially transferred to the figure, the clay image was discarded. This speculation would explain why most dogū are found scattered around or in refuse heaps rather than in graves
Sampler
Object type: sampler
Date: 1843 – 1843
Materials: canvas, silk
Subjects: flowers
Goudsbloemgracht in 1853
Object type: print
Date: 1851 – 1883
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Subjects: urban housing, rowing-boat, canoe, etc., bridge in city across river, canal, etc.

De Goudsbloemgracht is in 1857 gedempt en tegenwoordig bekend als de Willemsstraat.
Pepohoan Women; Mode of Carrying Child; Costume of Baksa Women; Lakoli
Object type: photograph
Date: 1868 – 1868
Techniques: photograph
Location: scotland
Artist: john thomson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british, scottish
Artist dates: 1837 – 1921
Raccolta di Teste
Object type: print
Date: 1756 – 1757
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: venice
Artist: giovanni domenico tiepolo
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1727 – 1804
Subjects: head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent uit serie Verzameling hoofden (Raccolta di teste). Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo vervaardigde in de winter van 1757-1758 en in de periode van 1771-1774 deze hoofden naar schilderijen en tekeningen van Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. De eerste uitgave verscheen in 1774 in twee delen met elk dertig prenten. Deze prent werd opgenomen in deel 1.
Appliqué in the Form of a Dragon
Object type: appliqué
Date: 1300 – 1001
Materials: bronze
Culture: chinese
Subjects: dragons
Braid
Object type: textile
Date: 1701 – 1750
Materials: silver gilt, gold, lace, silk
Techniques: lace
Location: europe
Zicht op Avrona, juni-juli 1934
Object type: photograph
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: switzerland
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Avrona Juni/Juli 34 Blick von unseren Balkon’
Glass garland bowl
Object type: bowl
Date: 34 – 1
Materials: glass
Culture: roman
Subjects: garlands

Colorless, translucent purple, translucent honey yellow, translucent cobalt blue, opaque yellow, and opaque white. Vertical, angular rim; convex curving side, tapering downwards; base ring and concave bottom. Four large segments of colorless, purple, yellow, and blue, and applied to the interior of the bowl at the center of each segment a hanging garland, comprising an inverted V-shaped white string above a U-shaped swag made up of a mosaic pattern formed from polgonal or circular sections of four different composite canes: one in a yellow ground with a white spiral, a second in a purple ground with yellow rods, the third in a colorless ground with white lines raditating from a central yellow rod, and the fourth in a blue ground a white spiral. The four different canes are arranged in pairs side by side but the order in which they are placed differs in each swag. On interior, a single narrow horizontal groove below rim. Intact, except for one small chip in rim; pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling, pitting of surface bubbles, faint iridescence on interior, and creamy iridescent weathering on exterior. This cast glass bowl is a tour-de-force of ancient glass production. It comprises four separate slices of translucent glass-purple, yellow, blue, and colorless-of roughly equal size that were pressed together in an open casting mold. Each segment was then decorated with an added strip of millefiori glass representing a garland hanging from an opaque white cord. Very few vessels made of large sections or bands of differently colored glass are known from antiquity, and this bowl is the only example that combines the technique with millefiori decoration. As such it represents the peak of the glass worker's skill at producing cast vessels.
Dog Cart Phaeton #351
Object type: drawing
Date: 1850 – 1870
Materials: gouache, ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: brewster & co.
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: carriages

Brewster & Company History Established in 1810 by James Brewster (1788–1866) in New Haven, Connecticut, Brewster & Company, specialized in the manufacture of fine carriages. The founder opened a New York showroom in 1827 at 53-54 Broad Street, and the company flourished under generations of family leadership. Expansion necessitated moves around lower Manhattan, with name changes reflecting shifts of management–James Brewster & Sons operated at 25 Canal Street, James Brewster Sons at 396 Broadway, and Brewster of Broome Street was based at 372 & 374 Broome Street with a repository (showroom) on 14th Street & Fifth Avenue. By 1874, Brewster & Company had 400 employees and combined warehouse and factory facilities at 47th & 48th Streets and Broadway. Brewster successfully branched out to produce their own automobiles, as well as supplying bodies for Rolls Royce at their Long Island City location. Notable clientele included Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, August Belmont, J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Andrew J. Cassatt (brother of artist Mary Cassatt), William Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick and Pierre Lorillard. Talented draftsmen employed by the firm included Paul Steinbeck, Herman Stahmer and John Gribbon, the latter teaching at the Carriage Builders and Designers Technical School, which opened in 1880 and was housed initially at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company finally dissolved in 1923, its last owner William Brewster (1866–1949) donated its archive of design and presentation drawings to the Museum where he served as benefactor and trustee. Of all American carriage manufacturers, none was as highly regarded for design, finish and quality as Brewster & Company. They won many awards for outstanding workmanship, including the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honor) at the 1878 Paris Exposition (3rd World’s Fair). In appreciation for this achievement the Carriage Builders’ National Association presented them with a gold enameled Tiffany & Company plaque and autograph book signed by leading American carriage builders, both now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Merri Ferrell, 2016
Portret van Cornelis Troost
Object type: print
Date: 1760 – 1780
Techniques: printmaking, engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jacob houbraken
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1698 – 1780
Subjects: painter, cornelis troost, historical persons, portrait, self-portrait of painter, portrait, self-portrait of artist, palette, wig, brushes ~ implements of painter
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2488

Portret van de schilder Cornelis Troost. Het schilderij met zijn portret staat op een schildersezel op een bordes en is omringd door de attributen van de schilder- en graveerkunst. Onder de ezel liggen palet en penselen, een gebeeldhouwde kop, tekenstiften, boeken en tekeningen. Links staat de schildersstok, waaraan een lauwerkrans hangt. Daarachter een schilderij in lijst. In de achtergrond een doorkijk naar een landschap.
Portret van Sébastien (I) Leclerc
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1675 – 1703
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: paris
Subjects: paris, print maker, sébastien leclerc (i), historical persons, portrait, self-portrait of artist
Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)
Object type: loutrophoros
Date: 350 – 326
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, south italian, apulian
Artist: metope painter
Artist role: artist
Subjects: men,women,eros,mirrors

On the body, obverse, woman with attendant in naiskos (shrine) flanked by youth and women Reverse, woman in naiskos flanked by youths and women On the shoulder, obverse, Eros with alabastron and mirror within foliage Reverse, head of a woman within foliage This imposing and beautifully executed vase, together with its counterpart exhibited here, is of exceptional interest for the architectural structure on the obverse. A small naiskos, rendered with three columns, encloses a woman, her maid who holds out a small casket, and a metal loutrophoros. Between the level on which they stand and the podium for the shrine are two panels with a pair of confronted lions. The podium itself consists of an upper frieze of triglyphs, alternating with metopes showing Greeks fighting Amazons. The lower element is covered with tendrils enclosing a female head. Although naiskoi are common on Apulian vases, the complexity and elaboration here are unusual. The unresolved question is to what extent the representation reflects actual funerary structures and the limestone reliefs familiar especially from Tarentum.
Amphitrite
Object type: statuette
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: bronze
Artist: michel anguier
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1612 – 1686
Subjects: female nudes
Twee putti zittend voor frontons
Object type: print
Date: 1613 – 1657
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france

De putto links heeft een palmtak en een lauwerkrans vast, de putto rechts twee bazuinen.
Portret van een onbekend kind
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1871 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: batavia
Subjects: anonymous historical person portrayed
Koorhek in de zuidelijk transept van de Sint-Salvatorskathedraal in Brugge, België
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1882 – 1887
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph, photolithography
Location: sint-salvatorskathedraal
Subjects: parts of church interior: transept
Inscriptions: monogram: ‘JJvY’, inscription: ‘CLOTURES. - PL. 4’, inscription: ‘CLOTURE en bois (...)’
Landhuis te Batavia
Object type: drawing
Date: 1779 – 1785
Materials: paper, pencil
Techniques: brush
Location: batavia
Artist: jan brandes
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1743 – 1808
Subjects: detached house in city, batavia
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Maison de Mr harkoofs fabrique’

Gezicht op een groot landhuis te Batavia vanaf de oprijlaan die wordt geflankeerd door grote sierpotten.
Dish
Object type: dish
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: stonepaste
Techniques: glazing
Location: iran
Isaac Murphy, Jockey, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,portraits,jockeys

The Goodwin Champions series of trading cards (N162), was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1888 to promote Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes. The series of 50 cards depicts athletes in various disciplines. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards from the series.
"The Iranians Mourn Farud and Jarira", Folio 236r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Object type: folio from an illustrated manuscript
Date: 1525 – 1530
Materials: gold, ink, paper, silver, watercolor
Location: iran
Artist: abu'l qasim firdausi
Artist role: author
Artist nationality: iranian
Artist dates: 935 – 1020
Subjects: sadness,men,women,horses,death

The Shahnama is filled with tragic events and moments of intense drama. On the page illustrated here, the painters have depicted the mourning of Iranians over the tragic destiny of Farud, the son of Prince Siyavush, and Jarira, his mother. After witnessing her son's death, Jarira ripped open her belly with a dagger. Then, lying down with her face against Farud's, she let herself die. The scene is one of the most emotionally charged in the entire manuscript. The women pull out their hair and cry, the courtiers beat their heads in despair, while the the creased expressions on their faces convey intense compassion. Even though Islamic painting is considered to be idealized, the painters of this Shahnama reveal instead a profound awareness of human emotions, which are depicted with great sensitivity.
Le Suprême Bon Ton, 1800-1815, No. 27: Café du Jardin des Tuileries
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1800 – 1815
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, hand coloring
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: fashion plates
Inscriptions: title: ‘Le Suprême Bon Ton’, title: ‘Café du Jardin des Tuileries’, number: ‘No. XVII.’

Waarschijnlijk is dit een verkleinde kopie naar prent No. 27 uit de serie van 30 modeprenten, Le Suprême Bon Ton, Parijs, 1800-1815.
Borstbeeld van een jonge man met fluwelen baret
Object type: print
Date: 1631 – 1632
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: leiden
Artist: jan lievens
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1607 – 1674
Subjects: youth, adolescent
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Portret van een jongen in matrozenpak met hoepel in de hand
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1880 – 1887
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: ensemble of pieces of clothing: sailor suit, historical persons, toddler (male), (bowling a) hoop
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘(...)/ Herz/ Photographisch Atelier/ Heerengracht 80 en Heerenstraat 4/ AMSTERDAM/ No. 1340/ De plaat blijft ter nabestelling een/ jaar bewaard./ Specialiteit in vergrootingen/ Opnamen van stadsgezichten,/ landschappen en schilderijen in alle/ formaten en ook voor stereoscoop.’
Veertien gipsen koppen
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: annotation, annotation: ‘M 0.8 1/2 diameter’
Bronze knife with ram's-head handle
Object type: knife with ram's head
Date: 1 – 100
Materials: bronze
Culture: roman
Subjects: knives,rams

Handle ending in a head of a ram.
Crucifixion
Object type: painting
Date: 1475 – 1500
Materials: oil, panel
Location: germany
Subjects: comprehensive representations of the events on golgotha during christ's hanging on the cross, no particular event emphasized

Kruisiging. Christus aan het kruis, links Maria die in zwijm valt, Johannes, Maria Magdalena en de heilige vrouwen, rechts Pilatus en soldaten. Onderdeel van een groot altaarstuk uit het voormalige Augustinerchorherrenstift Rottenbuch. Drie van de andere panelen bevinden zich in de collectie van de Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen te München (tentoongesteld in de Staatsgalerie Burghausen im Palas der Burg). Een ander paneel bevindt zich in het Musée Grobet-Labadié in Marseille, en wederom vier andere in privébezit.
Ex libris van J.H. Pruim
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1940 – 1940
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: netherlands
Artist: jan van t slot
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1904 – 
Subjects: quarry, tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: pickaxe, mountains
Box
Object type: metalwork
Date: 1790 – 1790
Materials: enamel, metal
Location: wednesbury
Brigadier General Francis V. Greene, U.S. Volunteers, from the "Generals" series (T63), issued by LeRoy Little Cigars
Object type: print
Date: 1898 – 1901
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: leroy little cigars
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950

Tobacco insert card from the "Generals" series (T63), issued by LeRoy Little Cigars.
Cain and Abel
Object type: print
Date: 1886 – 1886
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Location: france
Artist: odilon redon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1840 – 1916
Portret van kardinaal Mazarin
Object type: print
Date: 1855 – 1915
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving

Portret in ovale lijst van kardinaal Jules Mazarin, eerste minister van Frankrijk. Buste naar links. Mazarin draagt een kardinaalsgewaad met een stijve kraag.
Vrouw deelt servetten uit terwijl een man de zijne ontvouwt
Object type: print
Date: 1711 – 1711
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jan luyken
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1649 – 1712
Subjects: napkin, waiting at table
Inscriptions: stamp, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Prent uit: Luyken, Jan. Het leerzaam huisraad, vertoond in vyftig konstige figuuren, met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen. Amsterdam: weduwe Pieter Arentsz. II en Cornelis van der Sys,, 1711, p. 150.
Gruss aus Rheinland
Object type: book
Date: 1866 – 1866
Materials: cardboard, linen, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print, printing
Location: elberfeld
Artist: carl siebel
Artist role: dichter, koopman
Artist dates: 1836 – 1868
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Bergische Sammlung Ernst Bertram’
Guitarist
Object type: crèche figure
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: cotton, leather, shell, terracotta, fiber, metal, wood
Techniques: inlay, polychrome
Subjects: hands,men,guitars,plants
Cartouche met een zeewezen
Object type: print
Date: 1564 – 1564
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'); 'mostri' (ripa), scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament, ornament ~ cartouche, mask, mascaron ~ ornament

Cartouche met een zeewezen, voorzien van een hanenkop, een lange gekrulde vissenstaart en voorpoten. De cartouche heeft een omlijsting van krulwerk. Links en rechts een vrouw die op een horen blaast. Aan de horen hangt een vlag. Onder de cartouche twee fantasiewezens. Dit wezen heeft het hoofd en de poten van een rund en de staart van een vis. Onder de voorpoten klemmen zij een vis en een slang. Gearceerde achtergrond. Onderdeel van serie met titelblad en 12 bladen.
Carriages and people in a town square
Object type: print
Date: 1880 – 1910
Techniques: lithography
Artist: josé guadalupe posada
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: mexican
Artist dates: 1852 – 1913
Subjects: human figures,towns,carriages
Ceremonial axe
Object type: celt
Date: 600 – 1500
Culture: taíno
Location: dominican republic
Artist: taíno artist(s)
Artist role: artist

The most numerous category of polished stone sculpture emerging from the Taíno world of the ancestral Caribbean islands are ceremonial axes and blades, which take many forms and may have been an important medium of exchange. Ceremonial blades made of different types of greenstone, both local and imported, have been recovered in large numbers. These axes, known as petaloid celts for their resemblance to flower petals, could have served as dedicatory offerings, which have a long history on the Caribbean mainland in Mesoamerica.