Moche tomb

Room 1, Vitrine 01

Ceramic
Peruvian Northern Coast
Florescent Epoch (1 AD – 800 AD)
ML004247

• Pottery bottle depicting a scene of anal penetration between a man and a woman, who are accompanied by the infant child the mother is breastfeeding.
• This piece was found in one of the niches of a Moche tomb excavated by Rafael Larco Hoyle in the Chicama valley, on Peru’s northern coast.
• The scale reproduction of the tomb shows us the precise location of this piece and other objects that were interred as funerary offerings.
• Moche culture, Florescent Epoch (1 AD – 800 AD), ML004247.