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Corn deity

Shape: globular, conical spout at the top Colour/technique: red body, relief (anthropo-zoomorphic heads and corn kernels), painted white Spout: red body Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part red body, upper part white and designed as corn kernels, in the upper part three anthromorphic heads, the middle and largest with feline teeth, neck and ear jewellery, the other two heads with pointed headdresses Special: ear jewellery, neck jewellery (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 24,4 cm
Depth: 15,6 cm
Width: 17,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17823

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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