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Sacrifice scene on the mountain

Shape: conical with stand ring, figurative application, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, relief and application Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part engobed red-brown, upper part engobed cream-coloured, an anthropomorphic figure lies prone on the mountain peaks with its head and hair bent downwards, to the right and left of it an anthropo-zoomorphic figure each, the head of the left figure depicted in full relief as an appliqué, the head of the left figure broken off (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: 24,2 x 12,9 x 17,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18295

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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