Moche Ceramic Vessels

Most of the moche ceramics have been recovered from the major archaeological sites of huaca de la luna huaca del sol and sipán shown respectively from left to right.
Moche ceramic vessels. Moche is fairly well defined temporally although its origins are less clear than its demise. Moche ceramic pot vessel in the form of a recumbent anthropomorphic peasant playing the quena an andean flute. The decoration is sometimes painted on the smooth surface of vessels 67 167 4. The portrait was made during the late moche period ca.
Archaeologists study and compare styles and themes depicted in moche art for clues about lifestyle belief and cultural variation among these ancient people. The shaman wears a feline headdress and large disc earrings. Moche sexuality of the thousands of ceramic vessels that have been recovered at least 500 of them display sexually explicit imagery typically rendered as free standing three. Other times it is tridimensional forming the vessel shape itself 82 1 30.
One particularly famous moche portrait vessel is known as the huaco retrato mochica. For many years the foundation of moche chronology was a five phase ceramic temporal seriation of moche style vessels established by larco hoyle 1946 1948. These phases were verified by archeological strata. The ceramic portrait is also an example of a stirrup spout vessel of a moche ruler.
Photo by nathan benn wagner edu. 600 ce according to the chronology made by rafael larco hoyle in 1948.