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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

Form: anthropomorphic head, stapes spout above the crown Colour/technique: red body, painted and polished white and red Stirrup spout: white VS: face painted red on the sides and white in the centre and polished, eyes, nose and ear decoration white, white headdress on top red-brown painting (polymorphic geometric) knotted under the chin, nasal septum pierced for jewellery (missing) RS: white, field in the centre painted in fineline technique Special: ear ornaments, nose ornaments, nasal septum pierced Special: headdress painted in fineline technique (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Weight: 0,83 kg
Height: 29,3 cm
Depth: 17,9 cm
Width: 17,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17920

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation 1900
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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