Tripod

Object Number:

26873

Current Location:

Collections storage

Provenience:

Peru
Beneath The Temple
Pachacamac
Pachacamac Temple

Culture Area:

Andean

Locus:

from a mummy

Section:

American

Materials:

Ceramic

Description:

the feet are missing Tripod with a squat- globular body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, 2 lug handles on the body, and a tripod 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. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1074."

Height:

13cm

Width:

15.9cm

Thickness:

0.53cm

Outside Diamater:

14cm

Credit Line:

Max Uhle, William Pepper Peruvian Expedition, Funded by Phebe A. Hearst

Other Number:

1074