Jar

26968

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield III

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 26968
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield III
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay | Pigment
Technique Painted
Iconography Frog
Description

Pottery. Body tapering to flat base; flaring neck; two vertical loop handles on body. Painted with frogs

Narrow-necked jar/bottle with an ovate body, flaring neck, rounded rim, 2 strap handles on the body, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with bands of horizontal designs in white, red, and black. The central band has a "frog" design. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange and gray in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base. No other numbers are visible on the object.

Height 24.5 cm
Width 26 cm
Thickness 0.6 cm
Outside Diameter 21.1 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 2119 - Field No SF

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