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Application: sexual intercourse scene (coitus analis) and child

Form: rectangular, anthropomorphic application (coitus scene), stirrup spout on the back of the upper figure (spout broken off) Colour/technique: grey body, red-brown and cream engobed, unpainted Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: cream-coloured engobed, figurative application on the top Application: two figures lying sideways one behind the other in coitus, the rear male figure half-erect, next to the front figure a lying child (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 15 cm
Depth: 15,2 cm
Width: 12,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47915

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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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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