Cooking Pot
31963
From: Peru | Northwest of the Town | Pachacamac
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 31963 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Inca |
Provenience | Peru | Northwest of the Town | Pachacamac |
Culture Area | Andean |
Section | American |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Incasic cooking pot, bowl-shaped neck with two encircling rows of bosses on body, two vertical loop handles on shoulder Cooking pot (olla) with a globular body, bulging collar, rounded rim, 2 strap handles on the body, and a rounded base. No molded/modeled additions. rounded bumps pressed out from interior. The vessel has numerous hemispherical protrusions on the body pushed out from the interior. The pot is red slipped with white painted lines around the handles and neck. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Evidence of usewear includes soot on the exterior and residue on the interior. Black sooty material at the interior as well as exterior. The catalogue number is written in black ink on the interior of neck. Black ink on the interior of neck reads: "2735c." |
Height | 14 cm |
Width | 16.2 cm |
Thickness | 0.45 cm |
Outside Diameter | 15.1 cm |
Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
Other Number | 2735C - Field No SF |
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