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Application: anthropo-zoomorphic figure; Relief: zoomorphic figures

Shape: conical, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic reliefs, anthropomorphic application, spout on the back of the figure (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, cream painted, relief vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part engobed in cream colour, depicting sea waves, upper part engobed in red-brown, zoomorphic reliefs (sea animals: ray, bird, seal) Application: anthropomorphic head of a figure whose body is depicted in relief on the back of the vessel, the figure has a ray on a fishing rod (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
crock
Dimensions
Weight: 0,518 kg
Height: 20,5 cm
Depth: 14,5 cm
Width: 13,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18022

Provenance and sources

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

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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