Jug (uncertain)
Jar (uncertain)
26991
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 26991 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Technique | Painted |
| Description | pottery; flat base, sharp equator, flaring neck. Incomplete. Painted: red-black-white. Textile pattern. like 26987 Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a carinated body, flaring neck, outward sloping rim, no handles, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted in red, black, and white. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing and reducing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange and gray in color. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1576." |
| Height | 10.9 cm |
| Thickness | 0.56 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 11 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1576 - Field No SF |
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