Bottle

27099

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield III

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 27099
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield III
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay
Technique Painted
Iconography Animal Head
Description

Pottery. Flat bottom, sub-globular body, cylindrical neck with a face modeled on neck and painted animal faces.

Face-neck vessel. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with an ovate body, hyperboloid neck, missing rim, no handles, and a flat base. The vessel has a modeled face on the neck including ears, eyes, nose, and mouth. There is a painted design on the top half of the body representing three two-sided animal head with vertical white and black stripes in between. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. The vessel is roughly burnished on the exterior. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "2132."

Height 25.4 cm
Thickness 0.52 cm
Outside Diameter 21.5 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 2132 - Field No SF

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