Jug
27226
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27226 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | Younger part of the principal excavations in gravefield 1. Covered in recent time. |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Technique | Painted |
| Description | Angular body, slightly flaring neck; one vertical loop handle shoulder to neck. Painted. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a carinated body, hyperboloid neck, rounded rim, 1 strap handle extending from the neck to the body, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with vertical bands of red and white. The white bands are outlined in black with black stripes at the interior. There appears to be a scraped finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1124." |
| Height | 17.9 cm |
| Thickness | 0.52 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 14.6 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1124 - Field No SF |
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