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Vessel (Owl Warrior; owl deity)

The vessel with a funnel-shaped neck is designed in the shape of an anthropomorphised owl, also known as the "owl warrior". It holds a club and shield in its hands and is decorated with arm and neck jewellery. Quilter (2010) assumes that the owl warrior represents a new deity in the late Moche culture. A very similar vessel (0-600) can be found in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin (inv. no. V A 31538).

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
183 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31738
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
between 300-450
Period/Style
Early Intermediate Period; Moche III (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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