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Corn deity

Shape: double-cone-shaped vase with flat base, spout with handle on the back Colour/technique: red body, relief (anthropomorphic head and corn cob), painted white Spout with handle: red body Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower half smooth, red body with a surrounding white band; upper half designed as a corn cob (red), white stripes in between; the anthropomorphic head red and with white ear jewellery Special: ear jewellery (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 18,8 cm
Depth: 15,4 cm
Width: 13,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17827

Provenance and sources

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

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