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Application: anthropo-zoomorphic figure (crab/crab)

Form: cube-shaped, anthropo-zoomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figure, damaged Colour/technique: light red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted black and white Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part red-brown and upper part cream engobed Application: anthropo-zoomorphic figure (crab/crab body with feline teeth), head ornament/covering, zoomorphic ear ornament (snake head), black face tattoo/painting, one crab claw broken off Special: face tattoo/painting, ear ornament (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 25,2 cm
Width: 19,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18029

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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