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Relief and application: anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures

Shape: conical, figurative reliefs and anthropo-zoomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red-brown and cream engobed, painted dark brown, relief stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, the lower part delimited by waves in red-brown, the upper part engobed in cream colour with figurative reliefs, an anthropomorphic figure lying prone on the conical top with its head and hair pointing downwards, below a relief of an architectural model (temple complex?), surrounded by anthropomorphic figures, the head is partially separated from the torso, on the sides an upright zoomorphic and an anthropo-zoomorphic figure (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 23 x 14,8 x 20,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48090

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote [Ort]
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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