Pot
27493
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27493 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | oldest part of gravefield I |
| Date Made | 600-1000 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Shouldered; neck swollen; two opposite knobs on neck. Plain. Cooking pot (olla) with an ovate body, bulging collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a rounded base. The vessel has two protrusions opposite each other on the collar. The rim is painted white. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "837." |
| Height | 20.5 cm |
| Thickness | 0.77 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 19.5 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 837 - Field No SF |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.