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Application: anthropo-zoomorphic figure in the mountains

Form: conical base, above two conical tops as mountain peaks, anthropo-zoomorphic application, spout with handle on the back of the figure Colour/technique: cream-coloured engobed (heavily abraded), painted black, relief Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part red body, upper part cream-coloured engobed, with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic relief Relief: Felid and anthropomorphic figure, snake, body of anthropo-zoomorphic figure Application: anthropo-zoomorphic head (felid teeth) with upper body, headdress/covering, zoomorphic ear ornament (snake head), arm ornament (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 21,8 cm
Depth: 17,3 cm
Width: 14 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18002

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Chimbote
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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