Plate
31109
From: Peru | Sun Temple | Pachacamac
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 31109 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Inca |
| Provenience | Peru | Sun Temple | Pachacamac |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Period | Late Horizon |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Painted |
| Iconography | Bird? | Crocodile? |
| Description | Incasic Plate with decorative painting. Bird or crocodile head handle Plate with a squat-flaring body, no neck/collar, inward sloping rim, no handles, and a flat base. The plate has two protrusions at the rim and a bird head extending from the opposite side of the rim. The plate is painted with Incan style geometric designs in brown, red, 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. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "2864." |
| Height | 6.2 cm |
| Length | 20.2 cm |
| Width | 14.7 cm |
| Thickness | 0.64 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 14.7 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
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