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Relief: Animal in the crescent

Shape: conical base, trapezoidal vessel body, convex, heavily damaged, spout missing Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, relief Vessel body: red-brown crescent in the lower area, cream engobed surface above with relief Relief Front: red-brown 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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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
crock
Dimensions
Height: 14,1 cm
Depth: 12,9 cm
Width: 16,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18392

Provenance and sources

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

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