Cooking Pot

31963

From: Peru | Northwest of the Town | Pachacamac

Curatorial Section: American

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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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