Pot
27462
From: Peru | Beneath The Temple | Pachacamac
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27462 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Beneath The Temple | Pachacamac |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | from a mummy. |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Plain. Cooking pot (olla) with a squat-globular body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, 2 strap handles on the collar to body, and a rounded base. There are no molded/modeled additions and no decoration. There appears to be a smoothed 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. Evidence of usewear includes black staining on the interior and soot on the exterior. The catalogue number is written on the interior of collar. Black ink on the interior of collar reads: "1078d." |
| Height | 14.5 cm |
| Width | 18.9 cm |
| Thickness | 0.49 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17.6 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
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