Cup
26797
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 26797 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | from deep grave |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Flat base, nearly straight sides with band in relief below rim. Cup or 'qero' with a flaring body, no neck/collar, outward sloping rim, no handles, and a flat base. There are no molded/modeled additions and no decoration. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in a reducing atmosphere as the surface is black and the interior is gray in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written on the interior of the vessel and black ink on the interior of vessel reads: "968." |
| Height | 12.1 cm |
| Thickness | 0.44 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 10.9 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 968 - Field No SF |
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