Stirrup-spout bottle
This vessel was in the collection of LAD Montague, a local collector of antiquities and ethnographic items. He believed it to be an ancient Greek vessel, made around 500 BC. It is actually a Moche vessel from Peru in South America, made almost one thousand years later than he thought. The Moche, or Mochica, was a civilisation which flourished between 1CE and 800CE.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/530
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- South America
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, LAD, Lieutenant Colonel
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- stirrup-spout bottle
- Simple Name
- bottle
- Production Year Low
- 200
- Production Year High
- 400
