Pot
27497
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27497 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Plain. Body beveled; wide mouth; neck with angular bulges and two small lugs on the ridges. Cooking pot (olla) with a carinated body, bulging collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a rounded base. No decoration. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior and a smoothed 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: "1260-j." |
| Height | 18.8 cm |
| Thickness | 0.62 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 20.6 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1260Y - Field No SF |
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