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Sacrifice scene on the hill

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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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Cataloguing data

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

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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