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Relief: copulation scene

Shape: spherical bottle with stand ring and relief Colour/technique: red-brown and cream engobed (heavily rubbed), relief spout, handle and stand ring cream engobed Vessel body: with surrounding relief frieze, depicting a coitus scene in a hut, surrounded by anthropo-zoomorphic figures (bird) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Height: 19,1 cm
Depth: 13,7 cm
Width: 11,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48148

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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