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Fineline Painting: Snakes

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Shape: spherical and with stand ring, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: light red body, cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique, partially rubbed off) Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, upper part two snakes, lower part stylised waves with spirals, stand ring red-brown (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 28,6 cm
Depth: 15,5 cm
Width: 15,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17648

Provenance and sources

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

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