Pot

27025

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 27025
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay
Technique Painted
Iconography Bird
Description

Red ware painted with bird pattern. Fragmentary- base and neck parts.

Wide mouthed vessel with a carinated body, hyperboloid collar, outward sloping rim, no handles, and a rounded base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with bands around the body and neck in white, red, and black. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange and buff in color. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "2309."

Height 11.5 cm
Thickness 0.6 cm
Outside Diameter 11.3 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 2389E - Field No SF

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