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Bird/owl

Form: anthropo-zoomorphic head (bird/owl); stirrup spout on the head Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, cream painted Stirrup spout: cream engobed (heavily abraded) Vessel body: face red-brown engobed, covered with cream dots, chin crescent-shaped cream engobed (mouth ornament?); ear ornament (snake heads) Special: ear ornament, mouth ornament? (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Head vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 27,3 cm
Depth: 17,8 cm
Width: 17,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18098

Provenance and sources

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

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