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Application: anthropo-zoomorphic figure with feline teeth

Shape: spherical, anthropomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figure (top) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted dark brown, relief stirrup spout: cream engobed, polished Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part red-brown, depiction of mountain peaks, upper part engobed in cream colour Relief: on each side of the vessel, an anthropomorphic figure lies prone on one of the mountain peaks with its head and hair bent downwards Application: reclining anthropo-zoomorphic figure (felid teeth), with arm jewellery and headdress (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 24,6 cm
Depth: 17,5 cm
Width: 13,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18296

Provenance and sources

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

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