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Prisoner

Form: nude anthropomorphic figure, seated, spout above the head, handle on the back Colour/technique: red body, painted white VS: face and figure red with remains of white painting, white rope around the neck, depiction of a penis, earlobes with depression for jewellery inlay (missing) RS: Hands tied behind the back, suggestion of a parted mop of hair Especially: seated in an architectural complex, earlobe with depression for jewellery inlay (missing) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 18 cm
Depth: 13,2 cm
Width: 9,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47903

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    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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