Pot

27018

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 27018
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay
Technique Painted
Iconography Frog
Description

Round bottomed; high tapering neck; wide mouth. Painted with frog pattern, in three colors.

Wide mouthed vessel with a globular body, tapered collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a rounded base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with bands of geometric design on the shoulder and neck in white, black, red, and purple. 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. Fireclouding is present on the base. There are striations in the surface from smoothing tool. The catalogue number is written on interior of neck. Black ink on the interior of neck reads: "2646."

Height 15.9 cm
Thickness 0.54 cm
Outside Diameter 15.5 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 2646 - Field No SF

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