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Portrait head with stirrup spout

Shape: anthropo-zoomorphic head (feline teeth), stirrup spout on the head Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, cream and red-brown painted, incised decoration Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: face red body, red-brown and black face tattooing/painting, eyes cream-coloured, headdress/covering with six snake heads, ear decoration 2 spirals and snake head, a further snake head on each cheek (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 25,4 cm
Depth: 17,8 cm
Width: 16,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48037

Provenance and sources

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

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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