Bottle
26804
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 26804 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I, Oldest Part |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | from loosened soil |
| Date Made | 600-1000 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Pottery, small, on cylindrical neck and upper slope of body Face-neck vessel. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a globular body, cylindrical neck, rounded rim, no handles, and a flat base. There is a modeled face on the neck and the body. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written on the side of the body. Black ink on the side of the vessel reads: "981." |
| Height | 8.5 cm |
| Width | 6.2 cm |
| Thickness | 0.39 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 981 - Field No SF |
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