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

Shape: spherical and with stand ring, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed, painted brown, birds Vessel body: two anthropo-zoomorphic mixed creatures (crab/crab), surrounded by sea creatures (partially rubbed off) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 27,7 cm
Depth: 16,2 cm
Width: 16,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17131

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    ChimĂș
    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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