Stirrup-spout bottle: pepino fruits
- CULTURE:
- Moche
- DATE:
- 200–450 CE
Fun Facts
- In his 1976 report, Junius B. Bird, curator emeritus of South American archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History, notes: "***N93 Complex representation of 3 tiers, each with 8 pepino fruits. Red on creamy slip. (The pepino is a sterile hybrid plant propagated only by cuttings.) Mochica I/II."