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Relief: Battle scene

Shape: globular with stand ring and relief, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, black and as painted, relief stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: on the front and back relief two anthropo-zoomorphic figures in combat (one figure with feline teeth, body tattooing/painting and girdle with snake head appendages and one figure with a crab body and zoomorphic headdress/covering in bird form) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 24,3 x 13,8 x 13,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18360

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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