Important stirrup vase presenting two heads of the eagle man god, symbolically placed on the jaguar snake god. In the mythology of this people, this scene symbolizes the meeting of two forces: aerial and terrestrial, represented here in symbiosis.
Brown and beige terracotta, marks of time.
Chavin, Tembladera, Peru, Early Horizon, 700 to 200 B.C. Provenance: former Ulrich Hoffmann Stuttgart collection.
Height 21.5 cm - Width 16.5 cm
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