Pot
27348A
Location: On Display in the Ancient Food & Flavor
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27348A |
| Current Location | Ancient Food & Flavor - On Display |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | Obtained at Mamacona. |
| Date Made | 200-600 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Body Depressed tapering to flattened base; swollen or collared neck; two vertical handles shoulder to collar. Black. With cover ( Calabash) Contained frogs. Wide mouthed vessel with a carinated body, bulging collar, rounded rim, 2 strap handles extending from the neck to the body, and a flat base. There are no molded/modeled additions and no decoration. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in a reducing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is gray and buff in color. The catalogue number is written in black ink on the interior of the neck. Black ink on the interior of the neck reads: "1212b." |
| Height | 16.1 cm |
| Thickness | 0.74 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 21.8 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1212B - Field No SF | 29474 - Associated Object Number |
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