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

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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