Jug
27263
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27263 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | Obtained at mamacona. |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Iconography | Face |
| Description | large. Turnip-shaped body, flaring neck; two vertical loop handles on body. With a face on neck. Line and punctate decoration around neck and below coffee bean eye. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a carinated body, flaring neck, outward sloping rim, 2 strap handles on the body, and a rounded base. There is a human face on the neck with eyes, nose, and ears added to the neck and the mouth on the shoulder. There is a pattern of dots and lines incised into the neck under the eyes and on the side opposite the face. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. There are numerous parallel scratches in the surface. The catalogue number is written in black ink on the interior of neck. Black ink on the interior of neck reads: "1274c." |
| Height | 29.6 cm |
| Width | 28.4 cm |
| Thickness | 0.53 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 25.3 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
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