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Clay vase

Shape: spherical vase with conical neck and standing ring Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted cream and black, relief Vessel neck: red body, painted white with vertical lines Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part with closely spaced hemispheres (corn kernels?) in relief, engobed in cream colour, containing a circular area of red body, convex (tip of a corn cob?); upper part with surrounding frieze painted in a polymorphic geometric pattern (heavily rubbed, triangles) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vase
Dimensions
Height: 18,5 cm
Depth: 15,1 cm
Width: 14,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18346

Provenance and sources

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

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