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Fineline painting: anthropomorphic weapons

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Shape: spherical, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted dark brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed, with dark brown stripes Vessel body: battle scene between anthropomorphic figures (prisoners) and anthropomorphised objects (club, shield), surrounded by animals (fish, felids), one anthropomorphic figure depicted standing under a roof (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 25 cm
Depth: 12,3 cm
Width: 13,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62194

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Sigmund Gildemeister - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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