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Fruit/tuber and anthropomorphic figure

Form: phytomorphic (potato) with anthropomorphic faces, stapes spout on the side Colour/technique: red body, orange and cream engobed, red-brown and cream painted Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: potato tuber with several side sprouts, two of which have an anthropomorphic face, both faces with scars, which could also be germ eyes Special: decorative scars (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 21 x 17,3 x 21,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18543

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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