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Application: Skull; Fineline painting: Flute (Antara)

Shape: spherical with stand ring, anthropomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figure Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Vessel body: designed as an upper body with arms, an antara in the hands, rectangular emblem on the chest (fineline technique) Application: anthropomorphic skull; mouth, nose and eyes perforated Special: rectangular emblem on the chest (fineline technique) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Pipe with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,3 cm
Depth: 13,1 cm
Width: 7,6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62152

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Valle de Chicama
    Hacienda de Casa Grande (near Trujillo)
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Sigmund Gildemeister - 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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