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Relief: Bird heads

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Shape: globular, stirrup spout on top, zoomorphic relief (bird's heads) Colour/technique: red-brown body, cream engobed Stirrup spout: red-brown Vessel body: upper part red-brown and in relief: Waves that end in bird heads; lower part engobed in cream colour (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,9 cm
Depth: 14,1 cm
Width: 14,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18355

Provenance and sources

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

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