Bowl

27068

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 27068
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay
Technique Painted
Iconography Animal Head
Description

Annular base, flaring side. Painted with bands interiorally: the upper bearing double-headed animals- heads only connected by diagonal bar.

Bowl with a flaring body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a ring base/foot base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted on the interior with bands of red, black, and white. The painted band closest to the rim has stylized animals in red, dark purple, black, and white. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a burnished finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1581."

Height 7.3 cm
Thickness 0.6 cm
Outside Diameter 21 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1581 - Field No SF

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