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Sacrifice scene on the mountain

Form: polymorphic vessel with round base, modelled with seven mountain peaks and anthropomorphic figures, stirrup spout on the reverse Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted red-brown and cream, relief stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: base horizontally divided into two parts, lower part cream engobed, upper part red-brown engobed Mountain scene: on the left an anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creature (felid teeth) with elaborate headdress sitting on a rectangular base, seven anthropomorphic figures between the mountain peaks, another figure lying at the foot of the mountain and a figure bent over the highest peak so that the hair is hanging down; on the side of the vessel below the anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creature another anthropomorphic figure (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 18,1 cm
Depth: 15,7 cm
Width: 22,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound, ceramic
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4669

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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