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Fineline Painting: anthropo-zoomorphic running figures

Shape: spherical with stand ring, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted brown (fineline technique, partially rubbed off) Stirrup spout: cream engobed, painted with drop-shaped dots (similar to those on the tail of one of the anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creatures) Vessel body: divided spirally into several horizontal levels, anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creatures (fox, birds) run up these to the throne of an anthropomorphic creature depicted between the stirrup spout, beans in between (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 25,2 cm
Depth: 13,2 cm
Width: 14,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 12004

Provenance and sources

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

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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