Pot

Plain. Cooking pot, blackened; round bottom, wide flaring mouth; two vertical loop handles on body.

Cooking pot (olla) with a squat-globular body, flaring collar, rounded rim, 2 strap handles on the body, and a rounded base. There are no molded/modeled additions and no decoration. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. 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 residue/accretions on the interior. There is black soot/accretion on the interior bottom of the vessel. The catalogue number is written on the interior of collar. Black ink on the interior of collar reads:"1260g."