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Corn deity

Shape: spherical with base ring, spout with handle on the back Colour/technique: red body, relief (anthropo-zoomorphic head and corncob), white engobed Spout with handle: red body with white stripes, white dots on the rim of the spout Vessel body: designed as white corn cobs, above the anthropo-zoomorphic head with feline teeth and zoomorphic ear jewellery (snake heads); pointed headdress like the ends of the corn cobs Special: ear jewellery (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 19,7 cm
Depth: 14,6 cm
Width: 14,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17826

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche
Collecting
who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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