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Relief: anthropo-zoomorphic figure under the double-headed serpent

Shape: rectangular, convex at the back, heavily damaged, spout broken off Colour/technique: red body, painted cream, relief body of the vessel: on the flat side relief of an anthropo-zoomorphic figure (felid teeth), standing on a pedestal, holding a double-headed snake above the head, waist belt with snake head appendages, zoomorphic ear ornaments (snake heads), neck ornaments, arm ornaments back: cream engobed (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
crock
Dimensions
Height: 16,2 cm
Depth: 11 cm
Width: 13,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48185

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Guadalupito (Chimbote)
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche
Collecting
who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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