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Application: three anthropomorphic figures with skulls

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Form: globular, anthropomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figures Colour/technique: red-brown body, red-brown and cream engobed Stirrup spout: cream engobed (partially rubbed off) Vessel body: vertical wide stripes, alternating red-brown and cream in colour Application: two anthropomorphic figures with skulls standing on a rectangular pedestal, the right-hand figure holding a staff, in front of them a third anthropomorphic figure with a skull, this one carrying a load on its back (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 19,8 cm
Depth: 12,7 cm
Width: 16,6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17873

Provenance and sources

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

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