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Sacrifice scene on the mountain

Shape: polymorphous vessel with a round base, on which five mountain peaks and anthropomorphic figures are modelled, stirrup spout on the back (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, relief stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: base red-brown engobed and painted with a cream-coloured wavy band all around Mountain scene: A figure sits between each mountain peak, another figure on the mountain top leaning over the peak so that the hair hangs down, an anthropomorphic figure lies at the foot of the mountains and an anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creature with a headdress/covering sits on the left side in front of the mountains (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: 18,8 x 14,3 x 16,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18288

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote [Ort]
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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