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Sacrifice scene on the hill

Form: polymorphous vessel with a round base, on which five conical mountain peaks and anthropomorphic figures are modelled, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red-brown engobed, painted cream, relief stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: red-brown engobed, stand ring cream-coloured Mountain scenery: On the left an anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creature (fox head) sitting on a rectangular base, four anthropomorphic figures between the mountain peaks, other figures lying at the foot of the mountains and one figure bent over the highest peak so that the hair is hanging down (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 22 x 15,8 x 19,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound, ceramic
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17585

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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