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Relief: anthropo-zoomorphic figures

Form: conical, depiction of two mountain peaks (or a temple complex) at the top, stirrup spout on the back, relief, heavily damaged Colour/technique: red body, cream-coloured and red-brown engobed, relief vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part red body, upper part relief and engobed in cream colour, two anthropomorphic figures lying prone on the mountain tops, head and hair bent downwards, below an architectural model in relief (stepped altar?), below an anthropomorphic body with severed head, on the sides of the vessel an anthropomorphic and a zoomorphic figure, the anthropomorphic figure wearing a girdle with snake-head appendages (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 23,5 x 13,1 x 17,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18294

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote [Ort]
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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