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Standing anthropomorphic figure: Uncu presentation

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Form: anthropomorphic (standing figure holding an uncu in front of him) Stirrup spout on the back (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed red-brown and cream painted, polished Stirrup spout: red-brown Vessel body: face red body, red-brown face tattooing/painting, zoomorphic head ornament (puma), ear ornament engobed in cream colour; the presented uncu is painted with four rectangles alternating cream and red-brown RS: on the left side a vertical stripe painted polymorphically geometric (triangles, circles) Special: face tattooing/painting, ear ornament (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 20,7 cm
Depth: 19 cm
Width: 14,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48043

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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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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