Stirrup spout vessel, representing a packed llama
The standing llama carries a transverse sack on its back. Llamas were bred as pack animals about 6000 years ago from the original form guanaco. They supplied the central Andes region by means of caravans until the 20th century.
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- südliche Moche
- Object type
- Ritual object
- Dimensions
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Height: 19 cm
Length: 24 cm
Width: 14 cm - Material/Technique
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Sound
painted, in model
moulded, Engobe
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 069023
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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5th - 7th 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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1911
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- Provenance
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For numerous
Moche objects in the Carl Sutorius Collection, Chimbote is given as the
place of origin. However, this is the port of export and not the actual
place of discovery. Given the similarity with ceramics excavated by Max
Uhle in the area surrounding the Huaca de la Luna, it is assumed that a
considerable part of the Sutorius Moche collection originates from later
excavations following Uhle's activity in the same area (Kaulicke, Las
Ruinas de Moche, Lima 2014).
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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