Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalPottery, showing a high-ranking individual being carried in a litter
High-ranking individuals were always carried in ancient Peru. They never set foot on the ground in the presence of their subjects. The Sapa Inca, the ruler of the Inca Empire, was carried by four men from the high nobility of the Incas. Even on long journeys the Inca did not walk.
- Data Provider
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Chancay-Kultur
- Object type
- Ritual object
- Dimensions
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Height: 12 cm
Length: 17 cm
Width: 10 cm - Material/Technique
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Sound
painted
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- M 30185
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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11th - 15th century AD.
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Peru
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Change of physical control
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when
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1965
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- Provenance
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This object
does not have a confirmed provenance.
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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