File:Nazca - Stirrup-spouted Bottle - Walters 20092028.jpg
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[edit]Stirrup-spouted Bottle
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Stirrup-spouted Bottle |
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English: This object pertains to the Andean theme of sacrifice and death as a religious act of regeneration and renewal. The expertly painted Nasca bottle, with double spouts and bridge handle, represents the highest achievement in quality and pictorial complexity of Nasca pottery painting. Its imagery features the so-called Anthropomorphic Mythical Being, which may symbolize powerful spirits in nature. At least fifteen subtypes of this spirit being are known, each perhaps corresponding to specific forces. A shared icon among them is the presence of trophy heads hanging at the waist (as seen here) or in close proximity to its mouth. On this vessel, a Nasca warrior grasps the being's "tail" as if he has captured or is in control of the spirit force. The line of female heads around the vessel may be a symbolic representation of the earth.
The images on the pottery vessel relate to the theme of sacrifice and agricultural fertility. Among the Nasca, the severed head was likened to a seed from which sprang renewed life in the form of young plants; large caches of trophy heads found at Nasca sites are the remains of religious rites intended to ensure agricultural success. In short, the human trophy head was not only the most sacred of offerings to the spiritual forces of nature; they were also integral to the pan-Andean ideology of death and regeneration, being but two parts of the same universal dyad. Death, caused by sacrifice and decapitation, is not the end; rather it leads to rejuvenation and new life. |
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Date | AD 450-650 (Early Intermediate (Phase 6)) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | earthenware, burnished slip paint | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 16.9 cm (6.6 in); diameter: 16.7 cm (6.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,16.99U174728 dimensions QS:P2386,16.76U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
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2009.20.28 |
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Place of creation | South Coast | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credit line | Gift of John Bourne, 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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