Pot

Blackened cooking pot with pressed ornamentation in low relief on shoulder, rim thickened on exterior, two loop handles, one off

Cooking pot (olla) with a squat-globular body, no neck/collar, flanged rim, 2 strap handles from the rim to the body, and a rounded base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel has a band of raised dot and line decoration around the shoulder and is painted black. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in a reducing atmosphere as the surface is black and the interior is gray in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written on the interior. Black ink on the interior reads: "2732f."