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Sacrifice scene on the mountain

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Form: conical base, above several conical mountain peaks, front with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic reliefs, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: grey-black body, grey engobe, partially abraded Stirrup spout: black Vessel body: to the right and left of the highest mountain peak sits an anthropomorphic figure (a figure with a club in his hand), below both a zoomorphic figure (stag?) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 20,1 cm
Depth: 12,8 cm
Width: 16,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17587

Provenance and sources

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

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