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Application: sexual intercourse scene (coitus analis); Fineline Painting

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Form: cylindrical, anthropomorphic application (coitus scene), stirrup spout on the back of the figures Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Vessel body: the vessel wall with surrounding frieze polymorphically painted geometrically, anthropomorphic application on the top Application: two anthropomorphic figures lying sideways one behind the other and under a cover, the head of one figure broken off, depiction of vulva and penis (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 17,1 cm
Depth: 19,4 cm
Width: 16,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 64543

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Heinz Walter - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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