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Relief: Dance of Death

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Shape: spherical vase with stand ring, vessel opening at the top Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, relief Vessel body: horizontally divided into three parts, lower part and stand ring cream engobed; middle part with surrounding frieze in relief; upper part red-brown engobed Relief: skeletons holding hands (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vase
Dimensions
Height: 15,3 cm
Depth: 16,5 cm
Width: 16,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47982

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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