Pot
27461
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27461 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | Found near a mummy. |
| Date Made | 600-1000 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Wide mouth, flaring rim; two horizontal handles on shoulder. Plain. Contained cotton Cooking pot (olla) with a squat-globular body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, 2 horizontal strap handles on the body, and a rounded base. There are no molded/modeled additions and no decoration. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Fireclouding is present on the base. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "976." |
| Height | 16.9 cm |
| Width | 20.1 cm |
| Thickness | 0.52 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 976 - Field No SF |
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