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Relief: Animal in the crescent

Shape: conical base, trapezoidal vessel body, convex domed, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, relief stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: red-brown engobed on both sides in the lower area, above crescent-shaped cream engobed surface with relief Front: zoomorphic figure (Felide?) with a volute above the nose and another volute on the tail Relief back: two anthropomorphised stars with a face (mouth, eyes, nose), large circles are set at the ends of the rays (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 28,7 x 16,6 x 12,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18391

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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