Pot
31953
From: Peru | Northwest of the Town | Pachacamac
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 31953 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Northwest of the Town | Pachacamac |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Blackened cooking pot without handles, encircling band of raised dots and one "blossom" Cooking pot (olla) with a squat-globular body, bulging collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a rounded base. The vessel has a band of raised dots around the shoulder. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Evidence of usewear includes soot on the exterior and residue on the interior. The catalogue number is written on the interior of neck. Black ink on the interior of neck reads: "2732e." |
| Height | 12.8 cm |
| Thickness | 0.57 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 15.5 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 2732 - Field No SF |
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