Molded pottery multi-chambered vessel with a coiled serpent about to eat a rodent
Molded pottery multi-chambered vessel with a coiled serpent about to eat a rodent
Molded pottery multi-chambered vessel with a coiled serpent about to eat a rodent
Molded pottery multi-chambered vessel with a coiled serpent about to eat a rodent
Molded pottery multi-chambered vessel with a coiled serpent about to eat a rodent
Molded pottery multi-chambered vessel with a coiled serpent about to eat a rodent

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Molded pottery multi-chambered vessel with a coiled serpent about to eat a rodent,

700–1100

Sicán
Middle Horizon (Late Intermediate Sicán phase)
1998-182

Information

Title
Molded pottery multi-chambered vessel with a coiled serpent about to eat a rodent
Dates

700–1100

Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
17.9 × 37 × 17.2 cm (7 1/16 × 14 9/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mitchell and Loretta Chipin
Object Number
1998-182
Place Made

South America, Peru, Lambayeque, North coast

Culture
Middle horizon
Period
Middle horizon, Late Intermediate period
Type
spouts, stirrup jars, ceramics
Materials
ceramic
Subject
rodents, snakes

Gift of Mitchell and Loretta Chipin to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.

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