Jar

27320

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 27320
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Locus Obtained at Mamacona.
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay
Description

Tall body, constricted midway; neck cup-shaped; two small handles shoulder to neck. Black.

Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a double lobed body, flaring neck, rounded rim, 2 strap handles extending from the neck to the body, and a flat base. There are no molded/modeled additions and no decoration. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in a reducing atmosphere as the surface is black and the interior is gray in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written in black ink on the interior of the neck. pencil mark on the bottom of the base reads: "1276a."

Height 24.6 cm
Thickness 0.53 cm
Outside Diameter 18.2 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1276A - Field No SF

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