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Application: anthropomorphic head

Shape: lenticular bottle with stand ring, anthropomorphic application, spout broken off Colour/technique: grey body, red-brown and cream engobed, brown and cream painted (fineline technique) Vessel body: red-brown engobed on the flat/broad sides, polymorphically geometric and zoomorphically painted; cream engobed and zoomorphically painted on the narrow sides Application: anthropomorphic head, engobed red-brown, eyes cream-coloured, zoomorphic ear ornaments (snake head); head ornaments/covering, zoomorphic neck ornaments (owl heads) Special (1): ear ornaments, neck ornaments Special (2): fineline painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Height: 24,8 cm
Depth: 10,9 cm
Width: 17,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 709
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Ferreyros - Collectors
    Bastian, Adolf - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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