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Application: Fight scene between two anthropo-zoomorphic figures (crab/crab)

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Shape: spherical with stand ring, anthropo-zoomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figure Colour/technique: red body, red-brown, orange and cream engobed, stirrup spout in relief: cream-coloured engobed Vessel body: in relief zoomorphic body (crab/crab) with anthropo-zoomorphic face (felid teeth) Application: two anthropo-zoomorphic heads (felid teeth) and crab claws (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 21,9 cm
Width: 17,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17628

Provenance and sources

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

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