Head Vessel
26803
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 26803 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | with deep mummy |
| Date Made | 600-1000 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Iconography | Head |
| Description | Brown ware. Features in low relief. Cup or 'qero' with a globular body, flaring collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a flat base. There is a modeled and embossed face on the body with ears, eyes, nose, and mouth. 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 and gray in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. It is multicolored on the exterior surface (red, white, orange). The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "377b." |
| Height | 8.4 cm |
| Width | 9.1 cm |
| Depth | 8 cm |
| Thickness | 0.35 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 377B - Field No SF |
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