Jar
26853
From: Peru | Beneath The Temple | Pachacamac
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 26853 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Beneath The Temple | Pachacamac |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | from a burial place at the east front of the construction, where the graves are almost beneath the terrace. |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | pottery; red-white-black. Spherical body, narrow neck with slightly everted lip, two vertical loops handles on body. Bands of zigzag design Narrow-necked jar/bottle with an ovate body, flaring neck, outward sloping rim, 2 strap handles on the body, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with geometric designs on the upper part of the body in white, black, and orange. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Evidence of usewear includes black staining on the interior. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1147." |
| Height | 23 cm |
| Width | 22.4 cm |
| Thickness | 0.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 19.8 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1147 - Field No SF |
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