Image: Takalik Abaj Olmec sculpture 1

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Description: Monument 23. Heavily eroded sculpture at Takalik Abaj, near El Asintal in the Guatemalan department of Retalhuleu. The sculpture is typically Olmec in style and content, showing a figure emerging from a cave, bearing an infant in its arms. It may have been a recarved colossal head, with apparent earspools visible on either side.
Title: Takalik Abaj Olmec sculpture 1
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Author: Simon Burchell
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