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Anthropo-zoomorphic figure on a mountain

Form: conical base, crescent-shaped in the upper part, anthropo-zoomorphic application on top, stirrup spout on the back of the figure (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red-brown body, cream-coloured engobed, relief stirrup spout: cream-coloured engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part engobed cream-coloured, upper part red-brown body, on it two zoomorphic reliefs: monkey and fox Application: upper body of an anthropo-zoomorphic figure (feline teeth), zoomorphic ear ornaments (snake heads), neck ornaments, arm ornaments Back: in relief body of the anthropo-zoomorphic application, girdle with snake head appendages (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 20,6 cm
Depth: 16,5 cm
Width: 14,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48085

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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