Jar

26790

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 26790
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Proto-Lima (uncertain)
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay
Iconography Human Face
Description

Pottery: red-white-black. Flat base, body with pointed bulge opposite human face in low relief; each eye with two tear lines; arms and legs in relief but no body. Neck of jar with and flaring and attached to top of head.

Wide mouthed vessel with an effigy-fruit shaped body, flaring collar, outward sloping rim, no handles, and a flat base. The vessel has a body with a conical side on one end and a rounded side opposite that. There is a human figure in low relief on the rounded side of the body. The vessel is painted in white, black, and red. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a burnished 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. No other numbers are visible on the object.

Height 20.2 cm
Length 16.9 cm
Width 13 cm
Thickness 0.5 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1014 - Field No SF

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