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Sacrifice scene on the mountain

Shape: polymorphic vessel with round base, five mountain peaks and anthropomorphic figures modelled on it, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, relief stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: completely engobed in cream colour, the anthropomorphic figures red body, one figure sitting between each mountain peak, another figure on the mountain top leaning over the peak so that the hair hangs down, at the foot of the mountains lies a nthropomorphic figure (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 22,5 x 16,4 x 17,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18287

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote [Ort]
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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