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Room 4, Vitrine 19

• These sculptural pottery bottles depict scenes of intercourse between a man and a woman. The man is wearing a turban, tunic and loincloth. In one scene, the woman wears braids, round ear adornments and a breastplate, and she is lying on her back. In the other the man is holding the woman by the back of her head and kissing her chin as she embraces him.
• Moche culture, Florescent Epoch (1 AD – 800 AD), ML004271.
• Lambayeque culture, Fusion Epoch (800 AD – 1300 AD), ML004376.

ML004271