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Sacrifice scene on the mountain

Form: polymorphic vessel with round base, above a conical mountain peak and anthropomorphic figures, stirrup spout on the reverse Colour/technique: red body, cream and red-brown engobed, partially polished Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: Cream-coloured engobed base; mountain scene with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures, on the mountain top a figure bent over the peak so that the hair hangs down, on the right side of the vessel an anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creature (lizard with a very long tail) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 23 x 12,3 x 17,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 7825

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo
who
Moche

who
José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors

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