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Application: Intercourse scene (coitus oralis)

Form: conical, anthropomorphic application (fellation scene), stirrup spout on the back of one of the figures (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, cream painted Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: engobed in cream colour, engobed in red-brown on the upper side, application on top Application: an anthropomorphic figure sitting on a throne with a headdress, in front of it an anthropomorphic figure lying on its stomach, performing fellatio (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 19 cm
Depth: 18,7 cm
Width: 13,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18531

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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