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Prisoner in a sacrificial grid

Form: anthropomorphic, male prisoner in a sacrificial grid, spout on the head Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed Vessel body: face red-brown, eyes cream-coloured, earlobes with round indentations to accommodate decorative inlays (missing), the sacrificial grid made of cream-coloured stakes with zoomorphically designed ends (animal heads) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 27,2 x 28,4 x 13 cm
Gewicht: 1,45 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48078

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

Description
Donation 1907

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