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Fineline painting: anthropo-zoomorphic figure (crab/crab)

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Shape: spherical, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted brown (fineline technique, partially heavily abraded) Stirrup spout: cream engobed, depiction of zoomorphic creatures with wave-like legs Vessel body: preserved side with two anthropo-zoomorphic mixed creatures (crab/crab and fish), back completely abraded (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 28 cm
Depth: 16,3 cm
Width: 16,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18394

Provenance and sources

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

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