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Relief: lizards

Shape: double cone-shaped with stand ring, top in the shape of a club head, stirrup spout on the side Colour/technique: grey body, brown and cream engobed, painted brown, relief stirrup spout: cream engobed, painted brown Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part engobed in brown, upper part engobed in cream colour with zoomorphic relief Relief: various lizards with the tips of their tails on the centre of the vessel at the base of the mace head, zoomorphic heads (owls?) on the mace head reliefs of lizards, arranged in a spiral (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 19,7 x 12,8 x 16,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound, ceramic
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62173

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Valle de Chicama [Tal]
Hacienda de Casa Grande (near Trujillo) [Ort]
who
Moche

who
Sigmund Gildemeister - Collectors

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