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Sacrificial scene on the mountain; Fineline Painting: anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures

Form: polymorphic vessel with round base, on which a mountain peak is modelled as well as anthropomorphic figures, stirrup spout on the back (broken off) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Relief vessel body: cream-coloured engobed and painted in fineline technique: anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures and plants; an anthropomorphic figure naked at the end of a stream of blood coming from the mountains Mountain scenery: Mountain peak engobed in red-brown, on the central mountain top an anthropomorphic figure bent over the peak so that the hair is hanging down; below, more anthropomorphic figures; on the left side an anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creature with feline teeth ("Wrinkle Face") sitting on a pedestal with zoomorphic ear ornaments (snake head) and zoomorphic head ornament/covering (feline head) RS: Fineline painting: two anthropomorphic figures, one of them a prisoner (naked and with a rope around his neck) Special: fineline painting in the lower part of the vessel (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 18 cm
Depth: 10,3 cm
Width: 13,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound, ceramic
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48095

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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