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Relief: Battle scene

Shape: globular with stand ring, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, partially polished, relief stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: vertically divided in two, each side engobed in cream colour and relief of two anthropo-zoomorphic figures in combat, both with tumi in hand, one figure with a trophy head the other figure with a girdle with snake head appendages (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 27,9 cm
Depth: 15,3 cm
Width: 14,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18364

Provenance and sources

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

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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