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Relief: anthropo-zoomorphic figure with plant

Shape: hemispherical, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream-coloured engobed, relief Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: front flat and with relief; back horizontally divided into two parts, lower part red-brown and upper part cream-coloured engobed Relief: Standing anthropomorphic figure, zoomorphic headdress, girdle with snake head appendages, holding a plant (maize) in the right hand and a staff with a zoomorphic head at the top in the left (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 21,4 cm
Depth: 15,1 cm
Width: 13,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48084

Provenance and sources

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

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