Jug
31876
From: Peru | Pachacamac (uncertain) | La Centinela (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 31876 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac (uncertain) | La Centinela (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | obtained at San Pedro |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Engraved |
| Description | Black bottle with engraved ornament Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a globular body, missing neck, missing rim, 1 missing handle extending from the neck to the body, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. There are engraved floral (?) designs repeated around the body of the vessel. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in a reducing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is gray at the interior and black at the exterior. The vessel is smooth on the interior. The catalogue number is written in black ink and pencil. Black ink on the bottom of the vessel reads: "(293)." |
| Height | 13.5 cm |
| Thickness | 0.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 13 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 293 - Field No SF |
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