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Fineline Painting: anthropomorphic face and weapons

Shape: oval/bean-shaped with stand ring, stirrup spout on the side Colour/technique: pale red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown, applications stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part engobed red-brown, upper part engobed cream-coloured, anthropomorphic face and arms on top, red-brown facial tattooing/painting, applied disc-shaped ear decoration, applied head decoration in the shape of club heads, depiction of shields and clubs (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 21,1 cm
Depth: 11 cm
Width: 23,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62143

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Valle de Chicama
    Hacienda de Casa Grande (near Trujillo)
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Sigmund Gildemeister - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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