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Relief: anthropo-zoomorphic figures

Form: conical, at the top depiction of two mountain peaks (or a temple complex, spout broken off, relief Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, relief Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part red body, upper part relief and cream engobed, two anthropomorphic figures lying prone on the mountain peaks, head and hair bent downwards, below an architectural model in relief (stepped altar?), below an anthropomorphic body with severed head, on the sides of the vessel an anthropomorphic and a zoomorphic figure, the anthropomorphic figure wearing a girdle with snake-head appendages (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
crock
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 19,8 x 13,2 x 13,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18293

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote [Ort]
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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