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Vessel
The spout of the black handled vessel with a decorated base is decorated with the head of a Sicán deity flanked by two felids. felids. Typical of this deity (or its earthly representative) is the mask-like face with upturned eyes face with upturned eyes and the pointed ears (Koschmieder and Clados). The Ethnological Museum Berlin owns a very similar vessel from Chiclayo from the Gretzer Collection (SMB inv. no. V A 47536)
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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data
Cultural attribution
Sicán
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
195 x 135 x 145 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31742
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17
Provenance and sources
when
900-1100
Period/Style
Middle Horizon - Late Intermediate Period; Middle Sicán style
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north)
-> Chiclayo (place)
when
1907
when
1915-19-03
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