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Application: anthropomorphic head

Shape: hemispherical in the shape of two mountain peaks, vessel holder designed as an anthropomorphic head Colour/technique: red body, painted cream, relief vessel body Front: red body Vessel body Back: red body, in relief an anthropomorphic body and a club Relief on the neck of the vessel: anthropomorphic head with zoomorphic headdress/covering (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 22,8 cm
Depth: 19,4 cm
Width: 14,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17780

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche
Collecting
who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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