Stirrup Spout Bottle

About this object

Narrative

The style of the spout is Moche I.

Iconographic meaning

The anthropomorphic figure on the body is a crab deity.

Physical description

Terracotta bottle with a closed, rounded wedge-shaped body with a flat base surmounted by a closely arched tube with a vertical spout at the top. The body is decorated with orange anthropomorphic figures holding trophy heads on a cream-coloured heavy slip ground.