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Corn divinity

Shape: globular with stand ring, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, relief (anthropo-zoomorphic heads and corn kernels and cobs), red-brown and cream engobed, painted black and white Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part red body, upper part white and designed as corn kernels, three anthromorphic heads in the upper section, the centre and largest with feline teeth and black facial tattooing/painting, headdress of all three figures like the end of a corn cob (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,1 cm
Depth: 18,9 cm
Width: 16,1 cm
Weight: 0,77 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17824

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
who
Moche
Collecting
who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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