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

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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