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Application: anthropo-zoomorphic figure; relief: fish

Shape: globular, anthropo-zoomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figure (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, relief, painted black Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: red-brown and cream engobed, depicting sea waves, zoomorphic relief (fish) on top; on the back, body of anthropo-zoomorphic appliqué in relief Appliqué: anthropo-zoomorphic figure (felid teeth), zoomorphic ear ornament (snake head), angling fish (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Weight: 400 g
Height: 18 cm
Depth: 14,5 cm
Width: 12 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18023

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation 1900
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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