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Application: anthropomorphic head; fineline painting: hands and outer garment

Shape: spherical with stand ring, anthropomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figure Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: cream engobed and designed as an anthropomorphic upper body, hands and clothing painted on top Application: anthropomorphic head, face red body, eyes cream-coloured, headdress/covering, nose septum pierced for nose decoration (ring), earlobes with indentation for jewellery inlay (missing), scars Special (1): nose decoration, earlobes with indentation for jewellery inlay (missing), scars Special (2): fineline painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 24,7 cm
Depth: 19,7 cm
Width: 14,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4621
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - 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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