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Application: anthropo-zoomorphic figure on a throne; Fineline Painting: polymorphic geometric

Shape: cube-shaped, anthropo-zoomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figure Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted red-brown and cream (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part cream engobed with polymorphic geometric painting (spirals with stylised bird heads), upper part red-brown Application: three anthropo-zoomorphic figures, a large figure sitting on a throne with owl's head, headdress/covering, arm ornament, shield two small figures standing at the back of the throne (bat), each holding an object (vessel and ?) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 23,5 cm
Depth: 18,5 cm
Width: 13 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18095

Provenance and sources

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

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