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Sacrifice scene on the mountain

Shape: polymorphic vessel with round base, modelled with three mountain peaks and two anthropomorphic figures, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted black, relief stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: lower part cream engobed, upper part red-brown engobed with white mountain peaks, between the mountains an anthropomorphic head, each with ear decoration and head decoration/covering, the left face with black face tattooing/painting RS: body of the anthropomorphic figures in relief Special: face tattooing/painting, ear decoration (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,3 cm
Depth: 17,5 cm
Width: 15,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18290

Provenance and sources

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

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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