Bottle
27367
From: Peru | Beneath The Temple | Pachacamac
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27367 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Beneath The Temple | Pachacamac |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | From mummy bale. |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Plain Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a globular body, bulging neck, missing rim, 2 lug handles on the sides of body, and a rounded base. No molded/modeled additions. Undecorated. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere with localized reduction as the ceramic paste is orange to gray in color. The vessel is smooth on the interior. Smoothing marks around join of body with neck. The catalogue number is written in black ink and pencil. Pencil mark on the side of the vessel wall reads: "1052a." |
| Height | 16 cm |
| Thickness | 0.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 13.5 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1052a - Field No SF |
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