Pot
27498
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27498 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Round bottom; swollen neck or collar; flaring rim; two lugs on neck. Plain. Cooking pot (olla) with a globular body, hyperboloid collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a rounded base. No decoration. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. The catalogue number is written on the interior of neck. Black ink on the interior of neck reads: "1260a." |
| Height | 13.5 cm |
| Thickness | 0.9 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 15 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1260C - Field No SF |
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