Bowl
27520
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27520 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | from grave |
| Date Made | 600-1000 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Small Plain. Bowl with a squat-globular body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a rounded base. There are no molded/modeled additions and no decoration. 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 and reducing 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 and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "963." |
| Height | 5.8 cm |
| Thickness | 0.51 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 963 - Field No SF |
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