Ornament Item Number: Sf572 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
A semi-circular shaped ornament made of a thin sheet of gold-coloured metal. The straight edge has a circle cut out of it at its centre. There is a design of six repousse concentric circles and seven smaller circles at the centre with a border of two lines of repousse dots.
Nose ornaments are depicted frequently in Moche and Vicus ceramics. They are worn hanging from the septum (Lumbreras).
Vicus/Moche Style, contemporary with Moche 1 and 2; 0-200 C.E.
nose ornament