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Form: anthropomorphic, two figures seated one behind the other, spout on the back of the rear figure (broken off) Colour/technique: red and grey body, cream engobed (heavily abraded) Vessel body: two figures seated one behind the other, the rear figure with headdress holds the right hand to the mouth of the figure seated in front, the latter with neck ornament (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 17,9 cm
Depth: 11,8 cm
Width: 14,6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18542

Provenance and sources

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

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