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Toad/Frog

Shape: zoomorphic, frog/toad, conical spout on the back Colour/technique: dark brown body, painted white VS: closed mouth, outlined in white and strongly emphasised in relief, eyes and nose emphasised in half relief and outlined in white, white neck, circle cut out as air sac, row of white circles below, white volutes on each side of the head at eye level RS: tuberous fruits in relief at the end of the body, five stylised cassava tubers in white around the neck of the vessel left and right side of the body: flat white, maize plant indicated (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 18,1 cm
Depth: 17 cm
Width: 13,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18181

Provenance and sources

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

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