Jar
27343
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27343 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Depressed body with two bosses; convex contracting neck; two vertical loop handles on body. Black. Lashed with cord network. Wide mouthed vessel with a squat-globular body, tapered collar, rounded rim, 2 strap handles on the body, and a rounded base. No molded/modeled additions. there are two bosses on the shoulder and there is network of cord tied around the body. The vessel has two bosses on the body. There is an S twisted 2 ply cotton cord tied in an interlocking net around the body. 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 surface is black and the interior is gray in color. There is a cord tied in a net around the body. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1930." |
| Height | 16.1 cm |
| Thickness | 0.57 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 22.5 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1930 - Field No SF |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.




