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Shape: Architectural model, two-tiered pyramid with rectangular base and house-like structure, handle on the back (broken off), in the house-like structure an anthropomorphic figure Colour/technique: orange body, painted white and dark red VS: Wall of the lower pyramid level with polymorphic geometric painting (red and white), wall of the second pyramid level with surrounding frieze with chequerboard pattern (orange-coloured body and dark red), surrounding frieze with polymorphic geometric painting (red and white) on the walls of the house-like structure Special: anthropomorphic figure with coffee bean-shaped eyes (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 16,5 cm
Depth: 8,8 cm
Width: 8,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17634

Provenance and sources

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

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