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Application: Corn deity

Shape: globular, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, relief (anthropo-zoomorphic head and corn kernels), cream-coloured engobed, painted black and white Stirrup spout: cream-coloured engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part red body, upper part white corn kernels, on the vessel body anthropo-zoomorphic head with felid teeth ("Wrinkle Face"), black face tattoo/painting, zoomorphic ear decoration, crescent-shaped head ornament with felid head, neck ornament (spheres), possibly wrinkles or scars Special: face tattoo/painting, ear ornament, neck ornament, possibly wrinkles or scars (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 21,2 cm
Depth: 19,6 cm
Width: 12,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47925

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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