German citizens voluntarily returned to the Mexican government 34 archaeological pieces identified as Mayan and others from the Gulf of Mexico coast, the Central Highlands, and the west (Colima and southern Nayarit).
The objects were presented yesterday in a virtual ceremony led by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, and the Secretary of Culture, Alejandra Frausto Guerrero.
Officials reported that the works were received by the Mexican Embassy in Germany, and include stamps, anthropomorphic clay figures, bowls and vases, as well as an effigy-type figurine and fragments of anthropomorphic figurines.
Highlights include a mask made of metamorphic rock, in the Olmec style, from the Mesoamerican Preclassic period (1200-600 BC), two heads of anthropomorphic figures in the Totonac style, from the Mesoamerican Classic period (250-900 AD), and a clay bowl made by the Mayan culture around the Postclassic period (1000-1521 AD).
