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Sacrifice scene on the hill

Form: polymorphic vessel with a round base, on which seven mountain peaks and anthropomorphic figures are modelled, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: black body, unpainted, relief Vessel body: on each of the three central mountain peaks an anthropomorphic figure bent over the summit so that the hair hangs down, below several figures in relief (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 22,4 x 19,7 x 14,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47803

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo [Stadt]
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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