Cultural context
Jiroft region Provisional regional attribution, not an excavated object context or a fully described culture.
No numerical episode date is yet registered here.
Jiroft handled object Date unresolved · unresolved Cultural context
Olmec La Venta This edition represents La Venta with one monument; it cannot estimate variation across Olmec imagery.
Registered dated episodes: 900 BCE to 400 BCE.
La Venta · Monument 19 c. 900–400 BCE · site context · site context Line 01 · Research lead
Figures within serpentine worlds Handled forms, human figures and snakes in the Jiroft–La Venta comparison.
Jiroft handled object Jiroft region↔ La Venta · Monument 19 La VentaWhat appears to correspond
Both selected images combine a human figure with serpentine elements. What differs or remains uncertain
Jiroft’s central figure holds flanking animals; La Venta’s seated figure lies within a larger creature. The apparent “bag” is the whole Jiroft object but a small depicted object at La Venta. Transmission check
Transmission not yet assessed The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect.
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Keep in the frame
What would move this cluster forward? Collected comparisons accumulate; they do not compound into proof. Each line still needs its own dated sequence.
Trace the Jiroft object to a museum accession and acquisition history. Compare whole-object function separately from depicted motifs. Follow the evidence
Sources & scope Provisional editorial records with no independent specialist sign-off. Review stages describe how far sources were checked, not the probability of a historical connection.
project · Deep Memory Records comparisons assembled from this repository and supplied material. An external first proposer has not been traced for every pair.
research · INAH Page 18, figure 17: figure within a serpent and a possible copal bag. This does not establish the meaning of distant handled forms.
