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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

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Shape: spherical bottle with conical top, stirrup spout on the side Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted dark brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, upper half stylised waves as a serrated snake, lower half red body, conical top white (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,6 cm
Depth: 17,5 cm
Width: 13,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18422

Provenance and sources

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

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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