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Architectural model

Shape: Architectural model, three-tiered pyramid with round base and house-like structure, containing an anthropo-zoomorphic figure (felid's teeth) holding his own shock of hair; pouring spout and handle on the back (broken off) Colour/technique: red body, white and red-brown engobed (partially abraded) Vessel body: lower and upper pyramid steps red-brown, the centre white; steps indicated along the middle and upper pyramid steps in low relief; the house-like structure white, the anthropo-zoomorphic figure red body (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 23,4 cm
Depth: 10,4 cm
Width: 10,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18031

Provenance and sources

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

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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