A Spout-and-handle Effigy Bottle: Spotted Dog, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 Ce - Dec 12, 2023 | Hammersite In Tel Aviv
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A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Spotted Dog, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

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A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Spotted Dog, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE
A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Spotted Dog, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE
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A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Spotted Dog, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

The dog was one of the very few domesticated animals in the Andes. The Moche believed that dogs escorted the dead to the underworld, effigy dogs were found in many Moche burial sites.

Height: 17.5 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 54, p. 86 ( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)

Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 2000-2008. Estate of Yossef Maiman.

Literature: Makowski, Krzystof, Rosenzweif, Alfredo, Diaz Jimenes, Maria Jesus, Offerings for the Afterlife - Peruvian Pottery from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006., p. 86


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A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Spotted Dog, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

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