Bowl
26847
From: Peru | Beneath The Temple | Pachacamac | Pachacamac Temple
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 26847 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Beneath The Temple | Pachacamac | Pachacamac Temple |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Technique | Painted |
| Iconography | Bird Tail |
| Description | Pottery: red-white-black. Flat base, flaring below, then straight to rim. Painted "bird-tails" Bowl with a flaring body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with a "bird tail" design in red, black, and white. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. 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: "1153." |
| Height | 9.7 cm |
| Thickness | 0.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 14.8 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1153 - Field No SF |
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