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Fineline Painting: Snake

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Shape: spherical, conical top, stirrup spout on the side Colour/technique: light red body, cream engobed (fineline technique), painted brown Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, upper half with a surrounding frieze depicting two snakes, below a surrounding row of dots, lower half completely brown (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 20,6 cm
Depth: 16,2 cm
Width: 12,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 13051

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    I.M. Bolivar - Collectors
    Carl Plock - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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