Bottle
Canteen
26943
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 26943 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
Culture Area | Andean |
Section | American |
Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
Description | Fragmentary; with face molded on neck. Two loop handles Face-neck vessel. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with an lentoid body, cylindrical neck, missing rim, 2 strap handles on the body, and a flat base. The vessel has a modeled face on the neck with ear spools, eyes, nose, and mouth. The neck is decorated with a repeated circular incised dots made with a stamping tool. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a scraped finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange and buff in color. there is a pinched unfinished closing at the interior of the body. The catalogue number is written on the interior of the vessel and black ink on the interior of vessel reads: "673." |
Height | 23 cm |
Width | 20.6 cm |
Thickness | 0.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 15.3 cm |
Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
Other Number | 673 - Field No SF |
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