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Corn deity

Shape: spherical and phytomorphic with stand ring, anthropo-zoomorphic application, spout on the back of the figure (broken off) Colour/technique: red body, white engobed, relief (anthropo-zoomorphic head, anthropomorphic heads and corncobs) Vessel body: designed as a bundle of white corncobs, three anthropomorphic heads are placed on the upper end, the middle and largest head is decorated with feline teeth and with ear jewellery ("Wrinkle Face"), the other two heads are unadorned, all three have a pointed headdress Special: ear jewellery (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 21,5 cm
Depth: 13,7 cm
Width: 15,7 cm
Weight: 0,629 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4652

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase 1884
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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