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Relief: Dance of Death

Shape: spherical bottle, spout on top, handle broken off Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted red-brown, relief Spout: cream engobed Vessel body: vessel wall with surrounding frieze in relief: dancing anthropomorphic figures with skulls, skeletons playing music sitting above them, vessels standing between the dancers (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 21,4 x 13,9 x 14 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17883

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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