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Sacrifice scene on the hill

Shape: polymorphic vessel with round base, modelled with five mountain peaks and an anthropomorphic figure, stirrup spout on the back (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted white and black, partially polished, stirrup spout in relief: cream-coloured engobed Vessel body: red body, mountain peak each painted white, black vessels with stirrup spout and white plants depicted on the mountain walls, on the mountain peak a figure bent over the peak so that the hair hangs down (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 16,9 cm
Depth: 18,1 cm
Width: 13,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 14066

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    M.E. Zimmermann - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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