Plate
27545
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27545 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Inca |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | Found with a mummy |
| Date Made | 1350-1500 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay | Pigment |
| Technique | Painted |
| Description | No handle but two pairs of lugs. Painted border and median bar. Plate with a flaring body, no neck/collar, inward sloping rim, no handles, and a flat base. The plate is painted with a band of geometric design around the rim and a central band of a geometric design down the center in red, white, and brown. 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: "1006." |
| Height | 3.2 cm |
| Width | 20.8 cm |
| Thickness | 0.62 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 19.2 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1006 - Field No SF |
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