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Bird/condor in the mountains

Shape: spherical, above spherical two mountain peaks, in between zoomorphic application (damaged), stirrup spout on the back of the figure (broken off) Colour/technique: grey body, unpainted Stirrup spout: grey body Vessel body: grey body, lower part of the vessel depicting a mountain range, relief underneath Relief: a surrounding depiction of plants on the lower body of the vessel Application: condor with a fish in its fangs (fish head broken off) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 25,4 cm
Depth: 12,7 cm
Width: 18,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4677
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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