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Relief: anthropo-zoomorphic head

Form: hemispherical vase, conical spout on top Colour/technique: red body, painted cream, relief Vessel body: on the flat side relief of an anthropo-zoomorphic head (felid teeth) with upper body and arms, double ear ornaments, neck ornaments, arm ornaments, framed by a cream-coloured ring, to the right and left of it the head of a double-headed snake, whose body is depicted in relief on the back of the vessel (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vase
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 20,7 x 15,6 x 13,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48096

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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