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Corn deity

Shape: spherical with stand ring, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: light red body, relief (anthropomorphic head and corn kernels), cream engobed, like and red-brown painted Stirrup spout: red-brown and cream engobed Vessel body: cream-coloured engobed, corn kernels arranged in a spiral enclose an anthropomorphic face with red-brown facial tattooing/painting Special: facial tattooing/painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 23,9 cm
Depth: 16,9 cm
Width: 11 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62145

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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