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Vessel in the shape of a seated person

The vessel with a funnel-shaped neck is in the form of a seated anthropomorphic figure, with ear plugs and an anthropomorphic figure with its hands on its knees. on his knees. The helmet indicates a man and his warrior status. A comparable object from the Baessler Collection from Chimbote is in the Ethnological Museum Berlin (SMB, V A 17736).

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
208 x 117 x 117 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31797
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
between 450-750
Period/Style
Early Intermediate Period - Middle Horizon; Moche IV (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Chepén or Chimbote (place)

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

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