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

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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