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Relief: Seated anthropomorphic figure

Shape: spherical vase with cylindrical neck, one side with a seated anthropomorphic figure in relief Colour/technique: red body, white engobed, painted black, relief Neck: red body, frieze of semicircles on the rim Body: white engobed Figure: face red body, eyes cream; black face tattoo/painting, ear ornaments, head ornament/covering, body tattoo/painting, outer garment cream and black; hands resting on the knees, jewellery on the wrists and lower legs (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vase
Dimensions
Height: 29,9 cm
Depth: 20,4 cm
Width: 19 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 12943

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    I.M. Bolivar - Collectors
    Carl Plock - 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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