The Met’s catalogue: a trumpet
The Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue identifies object 501851 (accession 89.4.1285) as “Trumpet”, assigns the cultural label “Moche”, gives the material as “Clay”, and displays the date “100–800”.
What this does and does not establish
A source-attributed catalogue description, not independently established material, identity, origin or exact manufacture date. No image or physical object was inspected. The broad 100–800 range is not evidence for activity in every intervening year. The museum country field is a present-day geographic locator, not a claim of an ancient national border.
How it is dated
- In the source
- 100–800; API numeric search bounds 100–800
- How we use it
- Museum catalogue indexing bounds, not exact manufacture dates or proof that an event occurred in every overlapped AD year.
- Method
- No historical calendar conversion. Preserve API numeric bounds as approximate discovery bounds; display label retained independently.
Sources and quoted text
Source 1
Trumpet (catalogue record)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Selected catalogue fields (English)
{
"objectID": 501851,
"accessionNumber": "89.4.1285",
"title": "Trumpet",
"culture": "Moche",
"medium": "Clay",
"objectDate": "100–800",
"objectBeginDate": 100,
"objectEndDate": 800,
"country": "Peru"
}Reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access Collection API (CC0), object 501851. Retain catalogue attribution, date-label/numeric-bound differences and snapshot verification date. No physical-object inspection is claimed.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-04. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth.
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