Pot
27477
From: Peru | Beneath The Temple | Pachacamac
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27477 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Beneath The Temple | Pachacamac |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | Found with a mummy |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Plain. Cooking pot (olla) with a globular body, tapered 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. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Evidence of usewear includes soot on the exterior and black staining on the interior. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the interior of collar reads: "1140d." |
| Height | 18.1 cm |
| Thickness | 0.51 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17.8 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1140d - Field No SF |
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