Bottle With Clamp Handle And A Dance Scene — Moche Culture

Bottle with clamp handle and a dance scene

Intricate dancing warriors and feline-shaped details adorn this ancient Moche culture ceramic bottle from 600 AD, offering a profound glimpse into Peru's sacred ritual history for collectors to explore.


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On the bottle there is a scene of dancing warriors. In the upper part of the artifact there are a flute player and a drum player and others decorative details: two heads feline-shaped with crab claws on the handle, some skirts similar to those of warriors and a ribbon. The presence of a divinity suggest a procession of warriors and a sacred context. The ribbon is also linked to the sacred, as it refers to other scenes of dance of Moche culture depicted on similar artifacts on which the supreme god Ai-Apaec leads a procession in which the warriors hold a lace, performing the