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Application: battle scene of anthropo-zoomorphic figures; Relief:anthropomorphic figures

Form: cylindrical, anthropo-zoomorphic and zoomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of one of the figures Colour/technique: red-brown, brown and cream engobed, relief Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed, polished Vessel body: cream engobed, on the vertical vessel wall with surrounding relief frieze, on the top red-brown engobed, application in relief: train of porters appliqué: two anthropo-zoomorphic creatures (felid teeth) standing opposite each other, one figure with a girdle with snake heads, the other figure with a crab body being attacked by a felid, both figures with neck ornaments, head ornaments/coverings and zoomorphic ear ornaments (snake head) Special: ear ornaments, neck ornaments (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Weight: 0,93 kg
Height: 21,6 cm
Depth: 13,5 cm
Width: 20,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47898

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation 1907
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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