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Corn deity
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Shape: spherical, spout with handle on the back (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red body, relief (anthropo-zoomorphic head and corncob) white/cream engobed Spout and handle: red body with two white stripes Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part red body, upper part white and designed as a corncob, in the upper part anthropo-zoomorphic head with felid teeth (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 16 x 12,7 x 17,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17825

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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