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Tuber/fruit with anthropomorphic head

Shape: spherical with stand ring, stirrup spout on the side, spherical appliqués Colour/technique: grey body, unpainted, relief Vessel body: designed as a potato tuber with eyes (relief) and several tuber lugs (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: 18,7 x 18,2 x 15,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47800

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo [Stadt]
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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