Double Vessel

26879

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 26879
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Late Pre-Inca
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay
Iconography Seated Human
Description

Annular bases; flat-side flask bodies, tapering neck on one, seated human figure on other; horizontal loop handles. Black

Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a double-chambered body with flat-sided cylindrical (drum-like) chambers, tapered neck, rounded rim, 1 bridge handle extending from the neck to the body, and a ring base/foot base. There is a molded/modeled seated figure sitting on top of the chamber opposite the neck. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing and reducing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is gray and orange in color. The catalogue number is written on the object in black ink on the bottom of the base. Black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1812."

Height 21 cm
Length 22.9 cm
Width 8.3 cm
Thickness 0.5 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1812 - Field No SF

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