Pot

27491

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 27491
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Locus oldest part of Gravefield I
Date Made 600-1000
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay
Description

Depressed body; bulging neck with everted lip; wide mouth; two opposite knobs on neck. Plain.

Cooking pot (olla) with a globular body, bulging collar, outward sloping rim, no handles, and a rounded base. The vessel has two protrusions opposite each other on the collar. There appears to be a scraped finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. Evidence of usewear includes residues/staining on the exterior. There is black and red staining on the exterior. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the interior of neck reads: "838."

Height 16.2 cm
Thickness 0.88 cm
Outside Diameter 17.5 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 838 - Field No SF

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