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Portrait head

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Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening above the crown Colour/technique: light red body, painted white and red (heavily abraded) VS: entire head red, white headband wound under the chin, painted red, red headband in low relief below RS: unpainted (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Height: 17,3 cm
Depth: 14,5 cm
Width: 14,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17938

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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