| Object Number |
40-16-139 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Cocle |
| Provenience |
Panama | Sitio Conte |
| Site Name |
Sitio Conte |
| Culture Area |
Central American |
| Locus |
Burial 11 |
| Date Made |
450 - 900 CE |
| Section |
American |
| Materials |
Ceramic |
| Iconography |
Animal Head |
| Description |
Round base, small jar. Lug handles (each an animal head) on opposite sides. Recurved rim with a red band circling it. Vestiges of red paint on body. Small part of rim broken an dmissing otherwise complete. |
| Height |
7.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter |
12.3 cm |
| Credit Line |
Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
| Other Number |
B11 - 68 - Field No SF |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Hearne Jardine, Pamela H., and Robert J. Sharer. River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1992. |
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| Mason, John A. "Ivory and Resin Figurines from Cocle." The University Museum Bulletin 8, no. 4. ( Oct 1940): 13-21. |
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| Mason, John A. New Excavations at the Sitio Conte, Cocle, Panama. 2. Proceedings of the Eigth American Scientific Congress, Washington, DC, May 10-18, 1940, 1942. Page/Fig./Plate: 103-107. Washington, DC: Department of State |
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| "A Gold and Emerald Crocodile from Panama," Archaeology. 2. 1949. :8485 |
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