Bottle Item Number: 2990/484 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Stirrup-spout terracotta bottle with ovoid ring base. Three mountain peaks with a painted sacrificed person lying over central one, holding serpent in left hand, cactus in right. Figure below is holding a cactus with his left hand. Lower-front body has a deity figure grabbing a cactus with right hand and a weapon with the left; he is fighting a Moche god who is wearing a feline headdress and is grabbing a weapon with his right hand and pulling his hair with the left. Back design has a representation of three figures: small zoomorphic figure falling down on the left side, a male holding a bag over his right shoulder and a cactus in his left hand, and a Moche god wearing a bird headdress, holding a bag on his back and three spears with his left hand. Breakage restored.