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Relief: anthropo-zoomorphic figure under the double-headed serpent

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Shape: conical base with relief and depiction of four mountain peaks, stirrup spout on the back, spout broken off Colour/technique: grey body, red-brown engobed, painted grey, relief stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body front: relief with seated figure on a throne/plinth, above arch of a double-headed serpent, the mountain peaks rise above the serpent's jagged back (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 17,6 cm
Depth: 20 cm
Width: 14,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47919

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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