Jar
26790
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
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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