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Llama with payload and human

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Form: zoomorphic, standing llama with carrying load and a reclining anthropomorphic figure on the back, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: cream-coloured gobé, painted brown Vessel body: llama body and anthropomorphic figure in red body shards, carrying load depicted as a net, anthropomorphic figure lying prone on the llama with its head towards the tail (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 25,7 cm
Depth: 25,5 cm
Width: 12,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18165

Provenance and sources

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

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