Bottle
27203
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27203 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | From a mummy. |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Iconography | Face | Buzzard |
| Description | Expanding hollow base, perforated with rattle. Spherical body, cylindrical neck with face; two buzzards in full relief on body with heads to side of face. Face-neck vessel. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a globular body, cylindrical neck, rounded rim, no handles, and a rattle base. The vessel has a modeled face on the neck and two modeled animals sitting on the shoulders of the figure. The base has an openwork geometric design and functions as a rattle. 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: "980." |
| Height | 12.2 cm |
| Thickness | 0.43 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 980 - Field No SF |
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